Diane, there are records online for certain regions of Baden-Wuerttemberg. But I'm afraid you have to do first some research homework in US like checking census records, ship-lists, immigration records, parish records etc in order to find out the German name and the German birth location. Without a certain minimum of useful information a research in Germany is without any chance. Dieter Am 21.12.2013 20:26, schrieb dlculhane@cs.com: > Thanks, Dieter, but figuring out his original name is part of my problem, alas! Are baptismal records for those princedoms on line? > > Diane > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dieter Joos <djoos@dieter-joos.de> > To: baden-wurttemberg <baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 1:13 pm > Subject: Re: [BW] Adolphus Crane > > > Ruth and Diana, > > after the revolution 1848 the two adjacent princedoms > Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen, at the south border > of Wuerttemberg, were integrated into the Prussian Kingdom in 1850. > Contrary to Prussia which basically is of protestant denomination, the > two princedoms were Catholic. > > BTW Crane is not a German family name. So the first step should be to > find out what the original German family name of Adolphus Crane was like. > > Regards > Dieter >