There has been some talk lately about whether we are related to folks with a spelling different that the modern spelling of SASSER. Some of you have written in and pointed out, for instance, that the 1790 US Census had only one (?) with this spelling while the rest had other spellings. You will find a WIDE variety of spellings of our family name in public records over the last 200 years in America. DON'T ignore these different spellings. Here are some I have found: SASCER, SASER, SASCIER, SASSIER, SARCER, SARCIER, SASHER, SATCHER, SAUCER, SAUSER, SAWSER, SAWCER and a lot more. The US Census Bureau recognized this problem of varied spelling of a single family name and created the "Soundex" system when they indexed the 1880 census. All names that sound similar are indexed together. When you deal with printed indexes, you can find an even greater corruption of the name because most of these folks aren't familiar with certain names--especially of small families or rare names such as our's. You will find the double S written up until the 1900's in a form that many people are not familiar with and it can look like an F or sometimes as a P or T. As a result, I have found SASSER indexed incorrectly as "SAPER" or even as "SATTER". More on this later... Robert Earl Woodham