Pat Hase wrote: > Thank you very much to Ian & Karen for the helpful suggestions about > searching for an unfamiliar name. There are several routes here for me to > go. If only I had paid more attention when I tried to learn German! > > I'm waiting for the marriage certificate now to see if her signature and her > father's name (if entered) give any more clues. You could try the German list. They do speak English and they're pretty helpful in the main. You will get suggestions to use the phone book for modern family members but I regard that as a bit dodgy. > (Thanks also to Charani for tolerance in stretching the elastic!) <G> It did get a bit weakened there ;)) If anyone else has suggestions to help Pat, perhaps they'd send them offlist now, please. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk