Are your Hayne ancestors from Rowan County, NC? The Haynes (Haines) families of that county seem to come from two sources: PA and NJ. They all stem from a Richard Haynes (Naines) from England. I was recently told that there is also a Hayne (Haine) family that is from Germany who originally spelled the name Hein. Can someone explain to me why a family with the same roots will have an "s" added on the end of the name among northern cousins and will not have the same in the south? I have run into this phenomena several times. (Daniel/Daniels-Beams/Beam-John/johns, etc.) Jim At 10:05 AM 02/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Thank you SO much for the Seibels info...Interestingly, Hayne is another >brick wall of ours & THAT refr is equally helpful. Maidee > > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl