A beginning point for researchers of The "SIMMERS" surname! - Genealogy

The surname, "SIMMERS", like many others, has numerous,
twists and turns! Many Simmers surname researchers have
experienced, being able to trace their roots, back, only
a few generations, before hitting a "Brick Wall"! This is
due, in part, to the fact, that some of the Simmers families
appear to have originated, in Germany, Holland, and Russia,
on the one hand, and in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and
England, on the other hand!

This website is intended to provide clues, to interested
Simmers researchers, as to the origin of the name, in their
respective family tree, and to suggest possible connections
between Simmers descendants and spouses, who may be living
today!

One of the newest and potentially most useful tools,
for researchers of Pennsylvania Simmers', is "The
Pennsylvania Counties List"

At this time, the best identified Simmers Families are:
  The Heinrich Simmers Family, originally of PA, and
more recently of Tuscarawas County in Ohio,

  The Christian Simmers/Zimmers Family of
Rockingham County in Virginia,

  The "George Simmers, a german" Family (from "The
History of Butler County", written a number of years ago,
and readily available on the Internet) of Butler County in
Pennsylvania, which could also be called the "Simmers/Reffner
Family",

  The James Simmers/Zimmer Family of Schuylkill
County in Pennsylvania,

  The Daniel Simmers Family of Chester County in
Pennsylvania, where many of the earliest settlers came from
Wales, originally,

and several others. Many of these families are of
German or Prussian origin, yet there currently remains a rather
significant number of Simmers individuals, whose family origins
are still un-clear! This is largely due to family stories suggesting
that their Simmers ancestors were originally of British origin! In
fact, many Simmers individuals are listed on the International
Genealogical Index, in Scotland and England!

One of the most often re-ocurring, given names,
among Simmers is George! It is likely, that this one name holds the
key, to removing a number of "Brick Walls"!

Maybe YOU would like to try YOUR hand at
solving, "The George Simmers Puzzle"?
CLICK HERE, to try!

JOHN SIMMERS who was sponsored by a Mr. Herbert Smith, appears
to be the first Simmers to arrive in the The New World! This
was in the year 1656, more than 100 years before the War of
Independence! He is listed in that year, in Westmoreland
County Virginia, which was created several years prior. This
is the same Westmoreland County where the early ancestors of
both U.S. Presidents Washington and Monroe, and of famous
Civil War General Robert E. Lee, settled! In fact, most of the
early settlers in Westmoreland, and much of the rest of the
Virginia Colony, were from England and Scotland!

We have searched and searched, and searched some more!
And, then we came to know, these Commandments......

(1) "Thou shalt name your male children:
James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Richard, Thomas,
Samuel, or William!"

(2) "Thou shalt name your female children:
Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Virginia,
May, or Ann!"

(3) "Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children!"

(4) "Thou shalt, after naming your children from the
above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as:
Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sally, Hattie, Mattie and
Sukey --- making them difficult to trace!"

(5) "Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal
documents or census reports, and only where necessary,
you may use only initials on legal documents!"

6) "Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so
that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in
various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, or Kicks!"

(7) "Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make
sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned
in a fire, or buried so that NO future trace of them can
be found!"

(8) "Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors
and vague innuendo regarding your place of origin!

(A) You may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales....or Iran.

(B) you may have American Indian ancestry of the _______
______tribe.

(C) You may have descended from one of three brothers
that came over from____________."

(9) "Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones
with legible names!"

(10) "Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of
birth, marriages, or deaths!"

(11) "Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born
James Albert, thou must make all the rest of thy
records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart,
or Alfred!"

(12) "Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making
reference to them, although "Unknown" or a blank line is
an acceptable alternative!"

(13) "Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males,
and dozens of their cousins with identical names in order
to totally confuse researchers!"

Special Thanks to Donna Paszek, for sharing with us, these
little known Commandments! They explain a whole lot!!

Post your Family Tree on our Bulletin Board!
It's the Best way we know, to get help from other Simmers
researchers! It is also the Best way to get your Tree, on
this website! When you do, Please be sure to indicate your
family's Country of origin, and your earliest ancestors!

Be Sure to E-mail us with your comments and suggestions!

In order to accomplish these objectives, where possible, and
without attestation to Fact, the Simmers relationship will
be indicated by the use of the following codes:

GB for the British Isles,
EUR for German and other European origins,
DKN for Don't Know!

Pages will begin with the earliest known Simmers Individual,
usually, even though in some cases the original spelling of
the surname may be different than Simmers. i.e. Simers,
Zimmers, and so on!

Please bear with us, as this is a "Work In Progress", and
hopefully, that is what it will always be!

Simmers is the 9,902nd most popular last name(surname), in
The United States; frequency is 0.001%; percentile is 70.998
[Source CBN]

IMPORTANT NOTE TO SIMMERS SURNAME RESEARCHERS!
Please avail yourselves of the numerous features of this
website! In the upper left corner of the page are a number
of "Buttons". Clicking on each will introduce you to a
useful feature of this website. For instance, there is:

A Message Center,

A Chat Room,

A Classified Pages bulletin board,

An About This Site,
and more! Please use all of these, often.

There is also a Simmers Guest Book.
Please take a moment to Sign-in! By so doing you will help
us to know, whether this website is, in fact, worthy of the
time that it takes to maintain it!

If you have ever wondered, how to answer your critics, you
know, The Ones who suggest that you are wasting too much of
your time on this! Just point out How much easier it would
be, if more of your ancestors had done what you are doing!
After ALL, If YOU don't do it, and, Now, Who will do it,
Later, after You are gone? If you get the feeling that no
one will care, just look at yourself. YOU CARE!

Happy Hunting!

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Site Created: Wed Feb 28, 2001
by Tom Simmers

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