KYGER FAMILY GENEALOGY

"THE KIGER KOUNTER NEWSLETTER"

The Kiger Kounter Newsletter
By Joan Young

In the spring of 1996 a small group of genealogical researchers first "met" on the Internet by means of message boards, mailing lists, and newsgroups. We all had one common interest--the surname Kiger or Kyger. It was soon decided that if we were to learn whether our various Kiger/Kyger families were in any way related to one another we would have to compare notes and share our research findings. This common effort of sharing soon led to the birth of a quarterly newsletter called The Kiger Kounter. Our interests broadened to include the study of all variations of the Kiger surname and expanded well beyond our original goal of determining whether or not we were related to one another.

The best way to tell you about our newsletter, The Kiger Kounter, is to let it do the talking for itself. I would be happy to send a sample copy of our latest issue to anyone who is interested. I will need a mailing address to do so.

The first stumbling block to overcome in researching the surname Kiger/Kyger is realizing that the name is not an original surname. It is a variant of Geiger, a common German-Swiss surname which means "Fiddler" or "Musician." Therefore, a major part of our Kiger/Kyger research involves the "root" surname Geiger.

If you provide me with information about your Kigers, Kygers, or Geigers I will be able to tell you whether we have discussed them as yet in our newsletter, and whether there is a particular back issue that might be of interest to you. If you would like me to search my files for your Kiger, Kyger, or Geiger ancestors I would be happy to do so, but I will need to know your earliest provable ancestor.

Joan M. Young, editor, The Kiger Kounter
JYoung6180@aol.com(preferred)
joanmyoung@hotmail.com

GEIGER-L Mailing List at Rootsweb
By Joan Young

There is now a Geiger surname list at Rootsweb. The list concerns the discussion of the genealogy of Geiger, Kiger, Kyger, and other variant surnames.

If you are interested in subscribing and hopefully contacting cousins from within your Kiger family, as well as reading about the research of others, you can subscibe to this mailing list by sending an e-mail to: GEIGER-L-request@rootsweb.com Put nothing in the subject box (unless your e-mail program requires a subject--then put "subscribe"). In the body of the message put one word only subscribe and nothing else. This will subscribe you to the Geiger mailing list in single message mode which means you will receive each message anyone else on the list posts as an individual message. If you would prefer to receive the messages lumped together in a digest (resulting in your getting all the mail but with fewer messages) follow the above subscription directions but instead of putting an L in the "to" address put a "D"--so the message will go to: GEIGER-D-request@rootsweb.com. This will subscribe you to the Geiger list in Digest format.

Once you are subscribed you will be able to post messages to the list and reply to others' postings. To post a message to the list you address it to:

GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com (you send the messages to Geiger-L regardless of whether you are a digest or single message subscriber).

Anyone who is a non-member of GEIGER-L who wishes to post a message to the list may do so, but may not post the message directly to the list address since the list is closed to non-subscribers. Messages from non-subscribers must be directed to me with the reason you wish the message to be posted and the address to which you wish the replies to be sent. Requests to post to the list from non-subscribers will be considered on an individual basis.

Joan M. Young
GEIGER-L Listowner,
JYoung6180@aol.com(preferred)
joanmyoung@hotmail.com

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