Sandy, First, we discourage writing inquiry letters to the village, either city hall or church. Many of us on the various German mail lists have had the experience of having our letters ignored. The reason, we suspect, other than their statement that "they do not do genealogy", is that they know their old village records are available on microfilm at local LDS Family History Centers. Second, "au Main" means "on the Main River" which is out of the area served by the Baden-Würtemberg mail list. According to Wikipedia "Erlenbach am Main" is in the district of Miltenberg, in Bavaria. ShtetlSeeker shows Laudenbach as being 3.5 miles SSE of Erlenbach, also in Bavaria. You need to make your queries on a mail list that serves that area, such as http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIAN-ANCESTORS.html At 02:01 AM 12/8/2008, you wrote: >From: "Russ and Sally" <scott1@embarqmail.com> >Subject: Re: [BW] Archive for Birth Records for Rotenbach, Germany? > >Hello Could anyone tell me where the records of my family could be located? >Prior to @1840's they lived in Laudenbach au main, Then Simon Link( my >great great grand father) married Anna Maria Hohn in Worth and then they >live in Anna Maria;s town of Erlenbach au main where Simon was the >proprietor of a Gusthaus of the Krone. I don't know anything about my >family's histories, and would love to know where to write to locate it. I >think they were Catholic, Thank you for any help you might be able to give >me, Sally Link Scott from Newton, New Jersey ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the perfect picture with our powerful photo search features. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/PnY6rx8VZ6vVb3occ97mqnjfs6GHOVXDkzDEURNJPLT138ormGc8M/