Hello Christopher, I agree with Toy Schach's reading of the name. The first example uses the German sz character and the second one uses the equivalent ss. Remember that the -in at the end was added to denote female gender, and is not really part of the name. So her real maiden name was Hess spelled either with ss or sz (ALT key plus numeric keypad 0223). Greetings from California, Michael Searching around Rotenfels, Kreis Rastatt for: MAYER SCHMOLL HETZEL EISELE LANGENBACH KLUMPP