The FHL catalogue mentions nothing about these records being among those that are restricted. Jennifer In a message dated 4/15/2009 7:28:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time, pafehring@columbus.rr.com writes: >From what I understand a lot of records that are available in the US are restricted from some other countries because of local laws. I have cousins in Murrhardt that do not have access to those records because of some German law, so I did the research here, but the good part is he was able to go to the actual german archives to do other research. **************Great deals on Dell’s most popular laptops – Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220631252x1201390195/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213968550%3B35701427%3Bh)