While this subject seems to be a hot one in this Ortenau List, my question is if any of the many members interested in the town of Mahlberg might happen to own the 1977 Familienbuch for Mahlberg-Orschweier. I'm still fighting the ghost of my mother-in-law in trying to learn of her grandparents and Johann Jäger is one of her grandfathers. The only emigrant from Baden whom I have found so far who _might_ fit his 1871 emigration date is listed as Johann Baptist Jäger, "Orschweier, Stadt Mahlberg"; maybe because the son of the emigrant Johann Jäger was a John Ignatius Jaeger, born June 1868, I can mentally picture a Baptist naming a son Ignaz. I have checked the Orschweier LDS Church Registers with no positive results; no Johann is there. I have openings to order the Mahlberg Church Registers and/or to contact the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe but before I would take either of those steps I wonder if anyone has the Mahlberg Familienbuch and can see if a Johann Jäger born in July 1843 is identified in the Familienbuch. The only connected family I know of to this Johann Jäger were the son Johann Ignaz of 1868 and twin daughters, Magdalena and Karolina born in September 1870. And, I do realize, this is nothing more than a gamble. djweber [email protected]