Someone else on this board has commented that JACKEL has also been spelled JAECKLE or JACKLE with an umlauted "A".

I have come across MANY Jaeckles in the Schwenningen church records. Schwenningen is a town between Stuttgart and the Swiss border. There are many surrounding towns that also have JAECKLEs, including Flozingen, mentioned elsewhere on this board.

I have documented some JAECKLEs as part of my JAUCH research. (I have a JAECKLE ancestor myself, but only on the German side.) If you're interested poke around here:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jss_jauc...

(search for JAECKLE)

or on my web site below....

-- Jillaine Smith
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/jauch