In a message dated 3/26/2006 9:26:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, Geolou50@cs.com writes: Thank you for the prompt reply. Yes, I would appreciate any info on Baltus and Jacob. They are found in Berks, Lancaster and Phila counties in the 1800s. It sometimes is spelt as Gehringer. Thank you again. You are very kind to share your information with so many people. --- Baltus GERRINGER arrived in Philadelphia on board the Mortonhouse on 24 August 1728. Jacob GERRINGER arrived in Philadelphia on board the Ship Shirley on 5 September 1751. Baltus signed his name by mark X and Jacob's name (and those of some other passengers on the Shirley) were written in by the clerk in the absence of the passengers (the book doesn't say where those passengers were at the time). So I don't know whether Jacob could write his own name or not and I don't have his signature. So there is quite a gap between the arrivals of these two GERRINGERs and I have no way of knowing whether one is related to the other or not. Is the 1800s the earliest you find your GERRINGERs in any records? I see some GERINGER/GERRINGERs in Berks County as early as the 1761. There is a Sabastian and a George GERINGER/GERRINGER having children baptized--Sebastian at Zion Lutheran in Greenwich Twp. and George at St. Paul's Reformed and Lutheran Church Amity Twp. There is also a Nicolaus and wife having children baptzed in the 1760s and 70s at Zion Lutheran. Nicolaus is most likely the Nicolaus GERRINGER I see on the ship lists arriving on the Halifax in 1754. In Lancaster County there are a David and a Henry GERINGER/GOERINGER having children baptized in 1760, 1763, and 1769 at First Reformed Church Lancaster. Joan