Hi all, Have been reading these posts with interest and decided to throw in a new twist on the name as I noticed so many common first names used. We are researching my husband's SHAWVER line, which as you can well imagine can be found spelled many different ways. SHAVER being a fairly common one in early VA records. The original immigrant was Sebastian or "Boston" Schauber who was born in Germany 1733 and immigrated to Philadelphia on the "Eastern Branch" arriving 3 Oct 1753. We loose track of him until he shows up in Botetourt Co, VA in the 1770's with family, have not found wife yet! His will was probated in Oct 1816 in Monroe Co, (W)VA. He had the following children: Christopher, Jacob, George W., Sarah, John, Barbara, Elizabeth and unkown female. These same names have been used extensively in this family. William is another one that commonly was used and my husband had a g-g-grandfather Milton. We have found some SHAVER's in VA and WV that we have not been able to connect yet. Have also heard the old tale that there were 3 brothers that came over about the same time but ended up going seperate ways. We know of the Daniel line from PA > OH and other parts west, this VA line also scattered far and wide to OH, IN, IL, IA, MO, KS, OK, TX, ID, OR and WA. Would love to share information with anyone researching this line or who would have any information to help straighten the VA SHAWVER/SHAVER's out! Laurie Shawver [email protected]