> Von: metamorphosis@uswest.net > Does anyone have any information about: > - the town of Lieufen ?? (It is hard to read the handwriting, > it could easily be another town name. We think they were > from the Hamburg region.) There's no such a town name in modern day Germany. If you don't have a Mac and if you have a scanner please send me a scanned jpg-file of this record. I would like to try to read this old script. Perhaps I can read it. But I would need more than just the word. I would need the whole context. > - the family remaining in Germany Do you mean the descendants who live today? You'll find them on the German White Pages on http://www.teleauskunft.de but especially Schmidt is a very very common surname in Germany. > - parents of either Wilhemina or Karl This to find out will be possible if we know the real town name. -- Best regards/Gruss, Johannes Sempert Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.