Thanks for all the off-list e-mails! I think thanks to Beth Arnott on the list we have found a most excellent candidate for the parentage of my Carl Mahn. She found a baptism at Evangelisch, Gundersweiler, Pfalz, Bayern for Carl Mahn in 1844. This Carl's parents were Peter Maehn and Maria Katherina Zapp. I have also found a New York City marriage record for another child of this couple, Peter, Jr. This gives me even more good feeling about this Carl Maehn being the same as mine, since now I know that at least one child of these two migrated to NYC. On 9/29/05, joseph cook <joecook@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! I am brnad new to researching in Bavaria. I was wondering what > on earth I can do to get information about an ancestor (last name > MAHN) who was born in 1842 in Bavaria. I have no knowledge of the > German language, and I don't have much money to spend on professional > research. What records exist that may help me? > > Thanks! >