Mary, I get the digest so I am usually behind. 2 suggestions 1. Try the Family History Library (index online) The municipal records go back to the 1790's. They are handwritten and are (or were in my case) somewhat hard to read. In the French the last 10 years of the 1700's were numbered from the revolution. 2. Did anyone suggest you check GeneaNet http://www.geneanet.org/ ? At a quick glance there are lots of hits for Leppert. Bob Teitelbaum