If you have the same variations in spelling as I have seen, while researching WERTZ (not MERTZ), then you should look out for... MERTS, MERT, MERTZ, MERZ, MIRT, MIRTS, MIRTZ, MIRZ, MURT, MURTS, MURTZ, MURZ, MUERT, MUERTS, MUERZ, and MUERTZ!!!!!! Don't despair - in fact, consider yourself LUCKY. I also have to look out for "V" instead of "W". :-) - Jeff R ---------- > From: lamparte@juno.com > To: hessian@cgocable.net > Cc: PENNA-DUTCH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Merz spelling > Date: Thursday, August 28, 1997 8:59AM > > > John. <http://www.cgo.wave.ca/~hessian> > > I noticed the spelling of your name as MERZ rather than the more common > MERTZ. > and your reference to the Hessians, which I associate (perhaps > incorrectly) with battles in PA. > > Are you descended from / related to the * Jacob MERZ * (b - abt 1838 > d-1912 Philadelphia) who married *Sabina LAMPARTER* in Philadelphia > July 1869? > I only know about one child of this marriage who lived to adulthood - > *Pauline MERZ* (b-1874 d-1972?) who married *John Georg SINGLE* > (b-1864 d-1943) > > Bob Lamparter > Selinsgrove, PA > > >