Hello, I am not researching Zirkle, but my mother's best friend as she was growing up in Harrisonburg was a Mae Zirkle, who married a Pete Markey (unfortunately I don't know how to really spell her husband's last name, even though their daughter Patty was my best friend when I was growing up in Harrisonburg, at least until we moved -- the surname, however it is spelled, sounds like marquis). I am also not researching Henkel, but I have a friend who is. Bart Hinkle, who lives not far from Warrenton, VA, told me about Rev. Henckel, a Lutheran minister who came to Pennsylvania probably during the 1700's. The Henkel's in Virginia are most likely connected to this Lutheran minister, whose descendants came to Virginia. The Library of Virginia has a lot of information on this family, at least according to descriptions available in their Digital Archives. -- Mary Taffet mdtaffet@syr.edu Norma Lewis wrote: > > I have two Zirkles in my index - isn't this interesting, this is an almost > entire German family as opposed to some which are almost entirely > Scotch-Irish! > [snip] > -----Original Message----- > From: Rvht@aol.com <Rvht@aol.com> > To: VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com <VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, July 18, 1999 8:33 AM > Subject: [VAAUGUST-L] Roll Call > > |Researching: > | > |Henkel > |Allen > |McCune > |Weekes > |O'Roark > |Zirkle > |Almarode > |Wampler > |Huffer > |Whismas