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    1. Re: [OHHARRIS] Re: Saners in Ohio
    2. I don't think I have any information on that particular Saner (Andrew b. abt. 1818), but maybe I can be of some help about the family in general. I am descended from what may be the same family. The original German form of the name, as you may know, is Zehner. "zehn" means "ten," so the name means, more or less, "Tenner." This is thought to either mean that some ancestor belonged to a Tenth Regiment or something like that in an old army, or that the ancestor was a tax collector (ten percent). In America the name was often changed to Seanor, Saner, Sanor, or other spellings. There are entire books written on these families, and if I were you, I'd look for them. There are also published genealogies of better and worse quality online and commercially available. Some of the Sanor/Seanor/Zehners of Stark County, Ohio were related to me. I "daughtered out" at Juliana Zehner, b. 1781 in Pennsylvania, m. Daniel Mathias, Jr., d. 1866 in Stark County, Ohio. Susan Osburn

    04/25/2003 09:32:40