Hallo Roland, All my family is of course from Bas Rhin (Alsace) or Switzerland and Germany but I live in the french Alps near Annecy (450 km from Strasbourg) I think you r Gfathers was from BOUXWILLER ( Bouzwiller does not exist)Haut -Rhin.the towns of HOMMER and HARREBERG are not in Bas-Rhin , Alsace but in Moselle who is one of the four "departement" of Lorraine. My family is from Bouxwiller ( Bas-Rhin ( near Saverne) and is lutheran.My GGmother fathers side is also a RICHERT and this name ( very common in Alsace) is one of them who appears the most in my genealogy. Genealogy occupy a big place in my life since more than ten years but I'm most informed about lutheran genealogy about the areaaround Bouxwiller and Gundershoffen.I have write a book about the families from Zutzendorf ( a little village near Bouxwiller and Pfaffenhoffen) beetween 1654 and 2006.Most habitants of the village emigrate to the States.( REEB, GANGLOFF, LENTZ, RICHERT, ROSENFELDER, RUCH, SCHINI, SCHMITT, SCHNEIDER, STAUB, WENCK, HERMANN ,GALL,SPRIESS are one of them). Ich habe mich sehr auf Ihre Antwort gefreut und mein Deutsch ist viel flüssiger als mein Englisch.Leider kenne ich nicht die Gegend von Bouxwiller Haut Rhin und auch nicht die Gegend von Hommer.Tut mir leid dass ich darüber nicht austauschen kann.Falls sie über Elsass im Algemeine austauschen wollen, können sie mir privat schreiben.( You can contact me privatly if you are interrested by general questions of Alsace) Have a nice sunday. Nicole

Hello Nicole, My name is Dutch Schultz and my family immigrated to the US from Obermodern in the mid 1840's. Does your book include any families from Obermodern or just Zutzendorf? Do you know whether the churches in Zutzendorf only Lutheran or were there others in the area? Thank you. Dutch