Those pesky Germans! :) They 'leap-frogged' up (to the southwest) the Valley of Virginia from Pennsylvania, into Tennessee even, with the "Scots Irish". You'll find settlements and smaller pockets (Widener Valley in Washington County) of them all over. My Swiss German ancestors (Surbers) were a smaller subset of the Germans. In the early days, the Swiss Germans tended to marry exclusively other Swiss Germans, whether those Swiss German families had been in the Palatinate for a couple of generations (my associated Haller line) or even in Alsace or Bayern, etc. or not. Also, having Elsassische (Alsatian) ancestry can complicate things! My Strosser ancestors were officially Frenchmen, but they were as German as could be and asociated only with other Texas Germans. Rick