As Wendelin finds new and valuable information for us, he sends a message to the List with the Subject Line "Update" and he tells us the involved town or towns, what type of information and on which Companion Page he has placed the information. Hopefully, you and I have read all of those messages and gone on to the Companion Page for more complete information including details of and from the home town of our ancestor but it any of those messages were missed a good idea would be to go to the Search page of the Rootsweb Ortenau List, < http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DEU-BAD-ORTENAU >> After the word "Subject", type the word update, after the word "Body" type your specific town name and click on the Search tab. See if you may have missed any of Wendelin's Updates... then go to the appropriate Companion Page, probably the Sources Tab at < http://ortenau.genealogy-bw.de/search/ > or the first page at < http://ortenau.genealogy-bw.de/ > whichever is identified in the original Update message. The more details we know about our ancestor and how he lived, the easier it may be to understand that ancestor and what brought him to emigrate to a new land. djweber djwdjw@ix.netcom.com