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 ------------------------------