ANN, thanks for sharing. I would just ask cousin/etc for their documentation = how proven, etc. OR check out Von Scheller family . Was VON SCHELLER the immigrant? what ship and when? WE have ZELLER immigrants proven to GERMANY and FRANCE by church records. WE have immigrants on diff ships from ENGLAND, etc = SEVERAL SPELLINGS = check the ship lists AND we do NOT have all ship lists. NO place of birth shown. YOU need the church/etc records to PROVE. WE are MISSING these documents. KELLER was a spelling for SELLER (K for S) and we don't have much info on = believe certain country spelling used K or S? SEVERAL changed names in US (OR used name spelling here) THE ship, census/tax/info takers Spelled by their SOUNDS, SO you are following these Documents by way THEY spelled it NOT our ORIGNAL families names. Also SOLLAR/SELLER. WE probably do need more work on spellings, BUT, where/when they came from would help solve. Thanks for sharing ideas. marie, iowa -----Original Message----- From: AKent616@aol.com [mailto:AKent616@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:49 PM To: SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SELLERS] Sellers, Abraham I've recently heard from a cousin that our ancestor, Abraham Jesse/Lenda Sellers, born in Pennsylvania, either he was the immigrant, or his father was...but that the original name was von Scheller of Germany.. and it was changed to Sellers in America. Now, the question is, has anyone on the list also heard this? Also, could the name have been also Zeller, Keller, Ciller...etc? I'd be interested in hearing some discussion along these lines. Ann K.