Lucy, Thanks for clearing up that muddle. Guess I'll have to look elsewhere for Seager connections... Now I'm off to look for that book. Barb >Barb: I spent some time looking over " The Saeger Family " by >Elizabeth Saeger Daniel and she does mention the following- > >The name Saeger / Sager / Seeger appears occasionally in old records >of Germany and Switzerland. Conrad Sager of Zug, Switzerland, was >killed by Austrians on a precipice in 1388. Burki Sager was a >councillor in Bern in 1402, and John Sager was Governor of Arberg in >1553. Tradition also indicates that a member of the family was >knighted Feriherrin von Seager of Seagersberg in the Austrian Tyrol. > >The Johan Nicholas Saeger family ( that relocated to Lehigh Co., PA ) >came from - Brandau, Odenwald section, Starkenburg, of Hessen >Darmstadt, Germany.