Shuler Michael <grinch42@mindspring.com> wrote..... >.... Could have been a case of disapproving in-laws. < You might be more right about that than you think, Mike. I'm on my old Comcrap pc at the moment (read: no genealogy files) because my main one is visiting a friend and getting a much needed tune-up. Pulling from my own memory here, seems like one of the records that I stumbled across listed Anton Schwick and Maria Josefa (sp?) Ritz as parents of Adolph Schwick, of Canton Valais, who served in the Swiss Guard. I have *never* found anything concrete to tell me that Mathie was Maria's maiden name and, honestly, this record looks more plausible to me than what I've heard from family members to date--the ones that said that the couple *owned* a farm in Crown Point, IN. Uhhh huhhhhh.... ;-) When checked by a Swiss researcher, Mathie wasn't even a name listed in the Swiss record books though Maria indicated on the census records that her parents were Swiss. Hmmmmmm..... The plot thickens......... Best, SueB