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Re: help/jaeger/yager
Posted by: Tom Yager	Date: December 23, 2000 at 07:23:14
In Reply to: help/jaeger/yager by daniel jaeger	of 408

It's the other way around. Jaeger is the German spelling and many changed to Yeager (or shorted later to Yager or Yaeger). Supposedly immigration officials often write down the names as they sounded instead of how they were spelled.

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Re: help/jaeger/yager Danie Bothem Huizenga 4/24/01

http://genforum.genealogy.com/yager/messages/115.html
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