This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/sqB.2ACIAE/23.1 Message Board Post: Dieter Some websites to get you started in your research. www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator http://vivisimo.com www.google.com A good locator of a town whose name is from the old regime is : www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm which is locating a town Birnbaumhof as being Hruskove Dvory, Iglau as Jihlava and Znaim as Znojmo. To locate a town in CZ use : http://mapy.atlas.cz http://phone.quick.cz CZ's phone site www.centroconsult.sk You might need to hire a research in CZ or you can go to the archive yourself to search for ancestral information.