In a message dated 12/18/2002 7:38:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > My understanding is that the records for LDS Schweinfurt only begin in the > 1880s, well after Anna Maria emigrated. > Hello Juliet: If you do not receive a better response from someone on the list, you might try the following. If you want to research the Church records for Schweinfurt, they have probably been moved to the archives and are no longer in the local churches. If your family was Catholic, the Schweinfurt records (for two Churches) are in the Diocesan Archive in Wuerzburg. The e-mail address is: [email protected] If the family was Lutheran, the archive e-mail is: [email protected] The archives will do the research for you, but for a fee You can write in English, but the reply might be in German, which, if you post to the mailing list, someone can translate for you. It's probably not necessary to include any detailed family info in your e-mail, because the archives will advise you first of the procedures and fees before conducting any research. If for some reason the records are located somewhere else, ask the archives for contact information. Good luck with your search. Paul C. Miller