Hi, thank you ... both of you, now I can explain it on my site... I reciently was sent a picture of the sign and a picture of the family house, supposedly the one our Hessians lived in...Johann Jacob and Paulus Bonnstein. ( Bonstein in the states) One more question burial customs... I understand you don't buy a plot in the cemetery.. you rent it. If no one pays they remove the body and re rent the plot...Right? what happens to the old remains... where are they put? I'm trying to explain the process to other Americans... Nelda Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/