Whitacre eventually changed to Whittaker or Whitaker. Mine are spelled with two T's and are definitely English. Probably the German people you speak of had an English ancestor in a predominately german family. Don Taylor ----- Original Message ----- From: TLN Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:41 PM To: WHITAKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WHITAKER] English?? or German?? Here in western Pennsylvania WHITAKERs are generally German and WHITACREs are generally English. Any comments?? Tom Nagy On 24 Feb 2002 at 11:09, MermaidInChasSC@aol.com wrote: > Columbia County, Georgia census I have has the Whitakers I am working listed as > "Whitacreas" has anyone else found this? Thanks, Tammy Gaskins > > > ==== WHITAKER Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== WHITAKER Mailing List ==== ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237