Hi Jean - you did just fine!! A few of your surnames can be found on the Egypt Church Records page (part of the Lehigh Co PA GenWeb pages), I hope they are useful!!: <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3955/lehegypt.htm> (it's a large document in chronological order, so use your "find" option from the browser menu!) For your KEPPLE, check various spellings such as GIPPLE and the like - you will also find them around Dauphin/Cumberland Cos PA in the late 1700's. Good luck on your research!! -Linnea >Hi, > This is my first attempt to send....hope I am sending to the correct place! >I am researching names from Berks and surrounding counties. I grew up in >Reading, so most of my ancestors settled around there. Ancestors siblings > moved around the country, but luckily I don't have to go far to find mine! > >German, Swiss and French Huguenot names are: > >BARRELL/BORRELL, BRIGEL, CRING/GRING/KRING, CHRISTMAN, DERR, > EARNEY/ERNIGH, FLICKINGER, FRIETAG/FRIDAY, GEHRET/GERHART/GARRET, > HABERACKER, HILL, HAYNE/HEHN, HOFFMANN, KEPPLE, KUNZMANN, KUHN, KUTZ, > LORAH, SCHILD, SEIDERS, URICH/URIG, WEINHOLD, WENTZEL, WUNDER and >ZWEITZIG. > >English names are: > >CUTLER, FOREMAN, QUAINTANCE, SHIELDS, and BUFFINGTON. > >Please define Pennsylvania Dutch as my family was considered Pennsylvania >Dutch when I lived there because of our PA Dutch dialect. My grandmother had >such a heavy Pa Dutch accent and she was the one who had the English blood. >Am I in correct mailing list? >Thanks and so far I love this group, especially the history. My ancestor >John Quaintance was a soldier at Germantown and his commander was Captain >Morgan, so I could really relate to the article...waiting for 2nd part > Jean Neumann Hopper Linnea Travis Miller - Annville PA ltmiller@postoffice.ptd.net <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9263>