Bob, I see there is an entry in the online LDS Family History Library catalog for Impflingen. ====================================== Kirchenbuch, 1650-1918 Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Impflingen (BA. Landau) Communicants, baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths for the Protestant Reformed Church of Impflingen, Bayern, Germany. Includes entries for Insheim, Klingen, Heuchelheim, Klingenm?, Rohrbach, Kirrweiler, and G?ingen. ====================================== Have you visited your local LDS Family History Center and rented the films for those years? I also see many of the records for Impflingen have been extracted and posted in the IGI Files at the FamilySearch website. ======================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 HENRICH STENTZ Spouse: MARIA DOROTHEA BOSSERTH Marriage: About 10 APR 1731 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern Source Information: Batch No.: M981803 1650 - 1814 0247617 Film NONE ======================== It is likely this is your Maria Dorothea BOSSERT. The wedding entry above did indicate that Maria Dorothea's father was Hans. Maria is a Christian name and may or may not be used with the rufname (the name she was known in the family). ======================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 DOROTHEA BOSSERT Christening: 22 SEP 1702 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern Father: HANSS BOSSERT Mother: MARGARETHA LUCAS Source Information: Batch No.: K981803 1650 - 1814 0247617 ======================== I also searched for siblings of Maria Dorothea an found these: ========================== International Genealogical Index / Germany CHRISTOFFEL BOSSERT - Christening: 17 FEB 1705 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern HANSS BALTZER BOSSERT - Christening: 04 APR 1708 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern JOHAN JACOB BOSSERT - Christening: 04 DEC 1710 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern JOHANN THEOBALDT BOSSERT - Christening: 28 JUL 1716 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern MAGDALENA BOSSERT - Christening: 12 APR 1719 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern ANNA MARGARETHA BOSSERT - Christening: 01 JAN 1722 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern GEORG MICHAEL BOSSERT - Christening: 26 DEC 1724 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern ========================== There is also this wedding record . ========================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 HANSS BOSSERT Spouse: MARGARETHA LUCAS Marriage: About 02 AUG 1701 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern Source Information: Batch No.: M981803 1650 - 1814 0247617 ========================== There is also this baptismal record ========================= IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 HENRICH STENTZ Christening: 14 JUN 1690 Evangelisch, Impflingen-Insheim, Pfalz, Bayern Father: JACOB STENTZ Mother: VERONICA Source Information: Batch No.: J981803 1650 - 1814 0247617 ========================= The IGI might also have another generation or two further back. These entries should all be confirmed from microfilm 0247617. At 06:35 PM 5/26/2005, MAILER-DAEMON@messagelabs.com wrote: >To: BOSSERT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BOSSERT] Maria Dorothea BOSSERT; Impflingen; 1731 > >Thanks for the warm welcome. My BOSSERT connection is my ggggg-grandmother, >Maria Dorothea BOSSERT. According to the information I have, she married >Heinrich STENTZ in the village of Impflingen, Pfalz, Germany on April 4, >1731. The family came to America on the ship "Elizabeth," ariving in >Philadelphia on August 27, 1733. Maria Dorothea was apparently born about >1702 in Impflingen and died after 1761 in York County, PA. I would be very >interested in any information on this BOSSERT family. > >Bob Barr