Cathy, I assume that the 1774 list came from a landowner map with the names of the owners - there was no reason to write the origin there, at that time everybody knew were these owners were from. Even census lists seldom give informations about birth places. Only 150 years later Reiser tried to find the origin because nobody before made some notice about it. Maybe Leonhard Teufel did not arrive directly from Germany but from another place in Hungary where he arrived earlier. Our former AKdFF member Franz Teufel was born in Mágocs/Hungary - he wrote a family book and found several Teufel emigrants from Gunningen/Black Forest who arrived after 1730 in the Schwabische Tuerkei. But sorry - but in his book is no Leonhard ;-(( Guenter you wrote: --------------- Thank you so much for taking the time to do the look-up for me.? It is interesting to learn that the places of origin in Reiser?s work only come from W&K and the early church book records.? I find that some of the settlers on the 1774 list are never mentioned in the early churchbook records, and I wondered if the settler himself told the person who created the list where he came from, as was done in a census.? Now I know the information came from W&K. ?So, I am back to square one.? It is hard for me to believe that there is no record - even a military one - showing Leonhard?s assignment to Mercydorf.? Looking through a 100 rolls of military microfilm for a Seven Years War enlistment record without so much as a clue is too daunting a task. Thank you, again, for your responses. Cathy Teufel O'Neill