Joan: Your recent message included the surname WEIGEL. I have seen this surname in Lancaster and York Cos. especially. My family surname is WEGLEY/WEIGLEY/WEGERLIN/WEGERLE - earliest person in America was Paulus Wegerlin and his family who landed at Phila. Sept. 18, 1732 on the Johnson Galley. They lived in E. Cocalico Twp. and Warwick Twp. Lancaster Co. PA until the deaths of Paulus and wife, Ottilia Bayer; hers the latter about 1765. The children scattered to other PA counties. Another person of about the same name was John Michael WAGELI/WEIGLEY who lived in Lower Salford Twp. (can't remember which Co. at this time) in 1734 - he may have come to this country much earlier with the Palatines. My question is: The WEIGEL families in Lancaster and York Cos. seem to be a completely different family that either of the WEIGLEY's above. Do you feel this is true? Thanks, Barbara Wegley Anderson