Meyers Orts is the most trusted standard reference work about places in pre-war Germany. Every FHC has a copy on fiche, but working with the online database is MUCH easier. Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs is a gazetteer of the German Empire now on-line, in downloadable digital format -- free!!! The website is: http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1074&path= I read about this fantastic resource on the Pfalz list. I've added it to the Links section of the Alsachat resource <http://alsachat.net/links> and blogged about it: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/meyers-ort-online-and-free.html I have other map resources for Germany listed here: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/german-maps.html Of course, I'm always looking for more good resources! Valorie -- All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.com