Hi Thomas...I've been in Cuba for the past week (no access to internet)so am joining this conversation late. I learned a technique from the late Edna Bentz,author of "If I Can You Can," a marvelous text re learning to read German. Shealways said to place a piece of paper over the writing and trace it with a pencil...Often your fingers will tell you the letters your brain cannot comprehend.Try it!Shirley Hulett in San Diego ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Thomas Johnson <bachjohanns@yahoo.com> To: "baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com" <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> Subject: [BW] another mysterious word Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 04:39:05 -0800 (PST) Thank you, Patricia and Laura, for your kind comments which have given me food for thought - perhaps this ancestor's surname is NOT Baumann after all :)� I can sincerely say that if genealogy were easy, it wouldn't be as rewarding. Thomas Johnson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________ How to Stay Asleep All Night Try this one weird trick to put your sleep troubles to rest. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/531e0e49d80e7e4975f9st04vuc