What time period? What part of the county, if you know? My Millers were associated with the Germans or Swiss, and were probably either Brethren or Mennonite. This is truly a place where you have to research entire families when you get a common name, with several different ethnic origins for what ended up being the same surname. My Martha Magdalena Miller is listed in her father's will, and he shows up in the document as Henry & Heinrich. She is the widow of John Gish by 1850 (he died sometime after the census in 1840, and before the end of 1841.) I haven't done a lot with sorting out Millers because there are so many of them and of several ethnicities & relitions. I have no idea whether my Henry/Heinrich was the immigrant or born here as he died in the 1830s. I've gotten a couple of possibilities for his wife, and am not totally convinced of either of them. Karen In a message dated 11/29/2008 10:53:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Karen, I see that you are also looking for Millers in Lancaster County. My gg grandfather's name was Benjamin Franklin Miller. I have been having a very difficult time finding my Millers in an area where Millers are as numerous as Smiths and Jones are in most places. Any suggestions as to how to search a common name such as this one? On Nov 28, 2008, at 11:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I have several volumes of cemetery transcriptions for Lancaster > county, > since I have quite a few families that went through there (Gish, > Miller, > Sides/Seitz, Eckman). It was part of these transcriptions that made > me push our > group so hard to record everything. I stood at the grave of a gr- > gr-grandmother, > and though the dates & her name was legible, half of the writing on > the > stone was not. One guy said I didn't need it, since I had the > dates, but I want > to know what else was carved on the stone, since somebody in the > family > thought enough of it to pay to have it carved on/or purchase one > with that > particular sentiment. There wasn't anything like that on her > husband's. > > Karen > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW A OL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002)