Dear Robert, I am sorry you did not receive the instructions to post to our list... This list originally was @maiser.pop.indiana.edu. However, that server crashed due to being spammed. There were several hundred lists on it that were moved to @rootsweb.com. I am in a learning curve on the new server at rootsweb.. Please be patient.... as I learn the new commands. I do not know who originated the story of Sasser's coming from Hiemershiem. I first received a copy of it from a cousin. I later have seen it in 'The Branches of Laurel'. volume lll, 1988 page 31. Published by Laurel County Historical Society, London, Ky. 40741. It was submitted by Col. George Sasser. I have "heard" that Sasser was from Armenia as well as France. I have "heard" Kleinsasser and Desaucer as the original names. We do know that several Sasser's were in NC in the 1700's. William Sasser married Martha in 1778 and had a son named Henry Sasser. Henry married Nancy Kirby and Abt 1826 moved to Laurel Co Ky. with his children. Four Generations may be seen at http://www.familytreemaker.co/users/s/a/s/Don-L-Sasser/ Any insight you can give us to the origin of Sasser's will be appreciated. Thanks, Don Sasser ---------- From: Robert Earl Woodham Sent: Saturday, May 31, 1997 11:45 AM To: SASSER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: SASSER-L I still haven't gotten any instructions about how to send a message to the discussion group, so if this gets to you--Great! HOW in the world did this malarky about our Sasser family coming to North Carolina from "Heimershien, Germany" get started and what is the source for this idea? I have noticed from some online source that Don was talking about this and about a revolution in this area and that "Johann" Sasser and Thomas fled because of religions persecution, etc. and that a cousin born there later joined them many years later during the American Revolutionary War for Independence. They supposedly left Germany "after the 1735 invasion". If they left Germany AFTER 1735, then why do we find SASSER ancestors in America BEFORE that date? The only wave of German immigrants that I know of to settle in the South came to South Carolina and settled mostly northwest of Charleston (one of my ancestors was among these). They did NOT move north into North Carolina. And if our SASSER ancestors were supposed to be Germans, then why do we find the SASSER family name in ENGLAND long before this 1735 exodus? Robert Earl Woodham Columbus, Georgia ------------------------------