Diana
The difference in the spelling of the name should be ignored for two reasons;
In the first place , in the olden days spelling was precarious. Often men
spelled their own names with different spellings on different occasions or a
clerk or lawyer spelled the name as he heard it pronounced rather than bother
to ask how to spell it. When the early emigrant came to America early in the
18th Century the English clerks who could not speak German spelled the names
phonetically in many instances thus we have: Ziegler, Zeisler, Zeagler. Zegler,
Zigler, Ziegeler, Zeigler and Sigler. The other reason is that here in America
the census were printed about 150 years after they were written. The paper and
ink faded, fine strokes of the pen had worn away as the pages rubbed against
each other in use, and the clerks, experts as they were in reading old documents
sometimes erred in interpreting the hand writing. All that being said the
surname and spelling is ZIEGLER. My research often revealed the change was made
at the whim of the individual family member. Diana can you give me the birth
dates of the oldest head of household of the oldest generation you have records
of