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Description
Surname (for commoners) is placename-derivative, indirectly from prominent aristocratic Leiningen family; many similar placenames in "Leiningerland" northeast of Kaiserslautern GE centered around Gruenstadt. Most Leiningers in U.S.A. appear to be descended from two ancestral groups:
1) Philipp Leininger, b. ca.1545 prob Gruenstadt area GE, relocated 1570 to Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin, France; sons include Johann Heinrich Leininger ca. 1585; and grandsons incl. Heinrich's sons Philipp Jacob Leininger, b. 1627, and Johann Jacob Leininger, b. 1638, who both moved to Mietesheim 1679-80; other descendants in Bas-Rhin and nearby Germany; numerous desc. in U.S.A. over two centuries. Another group as yet unconnected, early 1600s in Wolfisheim, Bas-Rhin.
2) Leininger around 1550, Reutlingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany. Descendant Sebastian Leininger came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1748 with grown/young children; killed in 1755 in Indian massacre, leaving descendants of dau. and 2 youngest sons Johannes b. 1733 and Georg b. 1737. Other presently unconnected Leininger groups southwest of Kaiserslautern GE, and along the east bank of the Rhine River in Baden-Wuerttemberg GE, each with descendants in U.S.A.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Lanager, Leighninger, Leininger, Lininger