RHODAJ6@aol.com wrote: > > Could any one tell me if there is another spelling for the name of Smith, for > the years before the mid 1800's. I am having a hardtime locating info on > Jeremiah and Margaret (Wolf {e}) Smith, my paternal g. grandparents. They > were in Lykens at the time of my grandfather's , Milton O. Smith,birth in > 1872. Also, what is the correct way of doing a tracing from an old headstone? > Thank you, Rhoda J > RhodaJ6@aol.com et al:}}~ After agonizing long hours and days and weeks trying to decipher various headstone engravings, I suddenly became aware of Wm. H. Egle's Notes and Queries. Do you know that he has MANY engravings from olde Lancaster County, including Dauphin County, headstones that were dread by others years before him? The Smith ancestors will require many details to pin-point your ancestors, if they are recorded in his writings......which I just checked, and they aren't there. Try another name! -- Regards, with regrets to Netscape6 users (what a mess!) CHARLES EARL FIES -- Fies Family Fotos <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/> BABB - HARTMAN <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Babbs.html> DAUPHIN CO. CEMETERIES <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/DauphinCo.html> ERNST-GRUBER <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Ernsts.html> FIES/FEES Family History Research Site <http://www.fies-fees.org> Forgotten Cemeteries <http://home.att.net/~charliefies/Forgotten.html> FRASCELLA -- <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Frascella.html> HARTMAN <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Hartman.html> SCHLEGEL-PETERS <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/EarlPete.html> SNYDER-JONES <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/ermafies.html> SWARTZ / SCHWARTZ <http://home.att.net/~charliefies/Swartz.html> WIELAND-YOUNG-STONER<http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Wealands.html> ZIMMERMAN - Berks Co PA<http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Zimmerman.html>