The Last Shall Be First, and The First Last: Let's face it: When most Europeans came to the Americas, they were illiterate. They knew their names, but they didn't know how to spell them, let alone write them. And, when others (perhaps immigration clerks) wrote them down, they often just sounded them out and chose the letters phonetically. What started as the same name became a family of homonyms: Zeigler, Ziegler, Ziglar, Zigler, and even Seigler and Zieger. Eastern Gate Cemetery. [2017]
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