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Author: mszig11
Surnames: ZEIGLER, ZIGLAR, ZIGLER, ZIEGLER
Classification: queries
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There are literally TONS of Zeigler's in Pennsylvania during the time you mentioned.
Most of them continued with the traditional Ziegler spelling, so the fact that you are a
Zeigler may have some significance. Do you have any idea WHERE in Pennsylvania they may
have come from? I have a David Zeigler or Zigler who lived in both Cumberland and Adams
counties who had eight children with a first wife (who died prior to 1838) I have not
found those children or the first wife. I suspect that the older children either married
and left or must moved to Ohio or Illinois, along with many many other Pennsylvanians in
the 1840-1850 time frame.
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