By the way, Dori, I heard a couple of years ago from a very thorough SAFRIED researcher named Kristine Elliott. Kristine agrees with us about the frustrating aspects of the different name spellings. She said, "The various spellings of Siefried, Seifried, Safreed, Safreet, etc. are scary and definitely a difficulty for the genealogist. Soundex doesn't begin to cover it." She went on to say "At the Mongomery County (PA) archives, I found a will for a George Siefried leaving provisions for his wife "Molly" and everything ultimately to his daughter Mary, who had been married to Jacob Root. (I'll have to look at it again, but I think it identified her as Jacob Root's wife or widow rather than as Henry Sabold's wife.) He left some money to the New Hanover Lutheran Church, and money for a gravestone, so I went there on the reasonable supposition that he might have been buried there. Sure enough, I did find his gravestone. A copy of one of my photographs of the gravestone can be found at : http://www.geocities.com/souriete/GeorgFSiefried.html with a rough translation of those parts I can read. (It is in Fraktur.) The gravestone lists his wife as Anna Maria Lober. (Anna Maria's stone is broken and partially buried so I was not able to get any information from it.)" and "George's gravestone lists his father as Michael Siefried and his mother as Katharina Br ... I have not been able to track them down. There was a will for a Michael Seifried in Chester County of approximately the right age, but it does not mention a son George. (If I remember correctly, the Will is no longer in the folder at the archive, but there are extracts around.)" I wonder if there is anyone on this List who would know where those "extracts" of Michael Seifried's Chester County will are? I'd sure love to track down more on this Safreed / Seyfret / Seifried family. Any suggestions on the maiden name of Georg's wife, Katharine Br...? Thanks for any help you can give us! Lynn in Connecticut