Dear Hessian descendants; During my twenty years of doing research in the wherabouts of Hessian soldiers in the U.S.A. and Canada, I have typed out countless 'Personal Data Files' for individual Hessian soldiers. Each file (or name) has cost me countless hours of research, in some cases I had very little to go on, in others I had plenty of sources and material, and looking at some copies, there are PDF's with only six or 8 lines, and there are others with a full page, 2 pages, even up to nine pages. In the beginning of my research, I used to mail them to anyone asking for it for free, but I soon found out that this was a bad idea, because anything for free isn't worth much. Right? That's when I started to charge 10 Dollars for a PDF, and guess what, many PDF's I created because someone was asking for it, never were called for, and remained in my files. Work done, but not appreciated. Well, what I want to say with this - all my files are now with the S.A.R. Library in Louisville, Kentucky, the address has been published many times on this list, and I will not guarantee it, but your soldiers PDF may be there, or at least some important information about your Hessian soldier, your Brunswick soldier, your Ansbach-Bayreuth soldier, but your Anhalt-Zerbst soldier may be found in my Canadian repository in Ameliasburg, Ontario. BTW. there was not much to report about my visit to Germany. I'll write about it in the next few days. Yours truly John Helmut Merz retired (and tired) at the shores of Lake Ontario, where finally a cool breeze has brought to an end the 'heat wave'.