This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJF.2ACEB/84.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Bill, In general, the Kingdom of Würtemberg was Evangelische (Lutheran). The Grand Duchy of Baden was Catholic in the southern half and Evangelische in the northern half. The reason for Baden being both was that it was actually two different duchies previously, both named Baden. See the history at http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/hist.html#Gesch-B. HOWEVER, my Evangelische HELDs came from a small group of villages in southern Baden. My suspicion is that the region was once part of Würtemberg, because in the church records where my HELDs settled up north, the "county seat" given for the region was Tuttlingen, Würtemberg and not Donaueschingen, Baden as they should have been.