Hello all, I recently completed [or at least as far as I want to go now] a genealogy of this family. I am not related to this family, but have found that various people of this family kept popping up on my "twigs." So I have attempted to see how they are related. It is not a common surname, so much so that it appears that all the people of this surname that I have found before the middle 1800's are related. In short, John Feyerabend immigrated in 1772 to Phila. His indenture was purchased by Rev. Muhlenburg. John settled in the Lebanon twp area, where he served in the Revolution. He became a landowner and started a family. In the 1790's he moved to the North Middleton area of Cumberland Co. and became known by the surname Fireoved. Here his children and grandchildren married into the various German families of central Cumberland Co. Many of his offspring moved to the midwest and by the mid 1800's this family name became extinct in Cumberland Co. although many descendents remained with other surnames. If you wish, the results can be found at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlthoover& id=I221 Tony