Charlie, You might also want to try the Saarland area. I've seen the SCHUTZ/SCHULTZ surname often there. The Trier, Germany message board picks up queries for Saarland, too. You can search it at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=TRIER-ROOTS Best of Luck -Kay > Subj: [BAVARIA] SCHUTZ ggrandparents > Date: 9/5/2005 2:48:58 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: alsor28@bellsouth.net > Reply-to: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > Sent from the Internet > > Hello, > > I'm looking for a needle in a haystack. > The needle is my ggrandparents > Ludwig Joseph SCHUTZ and > Dorothee SCHWENKE or SCHROCKE > I estimate their year of birth to be about 1820 > I'm pretty sure they lived on South 1st Street in Brooklyn, NY > > The only information I have about them comes from my grandparents New York > City marriage certificate and a death certificate for their son Ludwick Julius > SCHUTZ who died 9 nov 1914 at age 73 in the Borough of Queens. His date of > birth is given as 2 January 1841and place of birth as Germany. > They don't show up in any census and up to now I haven't been able to find a > death certificate for either of them. In fact I'm just guessing that they > came from Bavaria. > > Any help greatly appreciated and I mean GREATLY! > > Charlie in NC > > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be > added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? > Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records > >