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/94.1.2 Message Board Post: Steve, If you are interested in making the jump "over the pond,' the best way is to continue researching the local records until you find something indicating the exact village name they came from. Look for old letters, maybe even some of the families nearby that may have come over with them. Also look at old baptism, marriage, and death entries in the church records. If the area had a local Who's Who in that time period, the village may be given. If they were naturalized, the application (not the final papers) will have the village. It may even be on the gravestone inscription.