Thank you Millie, I will pursue that. I do recall a story of how Peter's father hated the nuns that ran his school, sounds like a Catholic story to me! Cheers, Tony On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Millie <mvanh@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > The most helpful research on my huband's mother's German families was > through church records. I did not see where Salt Lake City had filmed any > in Alsacs Loraine and as you said there may not be any that survived the > bombing. Perhaps you could find some way to determine if any churches > survived in Mayen. You need to know if they were Lutheran or Catholic. > Not > knowing any German it was quite a challenge to find his family - just had > to > check for surname and village but I did get them back to the 1600's. > Christenings gave the name of the mother and father. Fortunately Salt Lake > had filmed the rocords I needed. As I understand it during Hitler's regime > families had to trace their families back. I did not find any of these. > Hope this is helpful. > > > > Millie > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >