Hello, Out of curiousity, I went to find out if there was a List where people discuss ancestors coming from Germany. I was surprised to see some of the Lists mentioned. For instance, one is where only German is "spoken." http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/DEUTSCHLAND.html And this List is bilingual: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/GERMAN-GENEALOGY.html For people researching people coming from Germany, you might want to look at the 8 pages of Lists which are about Germany. www.rootsweb.com And there are Message Boards for discussing Germany. http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.ceeurope.germany/mb.ashx (GERMANY is also a surname.) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI: One of my uncles went into the Army during his high-school years. As many soldiers did, he was stationed in Germany for a while. He met a young lady there, and I think he brought her back to Massachusetts to marry here. I can never remember the town she came from, but I think it was somewhere near Hamburg. Her name is Ursula and she is only ~6 years older than me. My uncle was "all English" and so their daughter was brought up with both English and German spoken around her. My aunt had a sister also come to the US, but she lives in Illinois. They would travel back to Germany once a year to visit their family - if they could afford to. Also, my EX had German ancestors. His father had mixed-heritage and his mother was Irish. They lived in Brooklyn, NY, but I have no interest in going back before 1900 - even if I could. Brooklyn, NY, is not as a genealogy-friendly place.