Dear Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List Subscribers, We have today unfortunately had a few of the rare posts on this mailing list which featured content or comments that were clearly OFF-TOPIC and thus inappropriate for posting to this forum. Your kind and immediate cooperation in getting list message content back on the right track of German genealogy will be deeply appreciated. We respectfully remind *all* subscribers that the Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List is not an "all-topic/any comment" forum. Its intended focus is family history/genealogical research, principally centered in the former German states of Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hohenzollern or the modern (post-1952) German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The list warmly welcomes discussions of genealogical or historical interest, research helps, suggestions for finding records, ancestor queries, and other information which directly assists BW List subscribers in furthering their individual family research efforts. Messages which discuss unrelated subjects or offer comments/observations about sensitive topic areas such as politics, religion, global economy, taxes, and the like are OFF-TOPIC for the Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List, and should not be posted. If you are unsure whether your message content might be inappropriate for the BW List in any way, please feel free to contact the List Co-Administrator at the personal e-mail address shown below in the signature line. We will be happy to provide clarification to you. Thank you for your kind understanding. With best wishes, Carla HELLER, Los Angeles, California USA [email protected] List Co-Administrator, ROOTSWEB'S Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List