Over the past several weeks there have been a number of new Ortenau List Members. This can be noted from the additional listings at the Search area of the Companion Pages. If you have not looked at your specific towns on those pages in recent weeks, I might suggest that you recheck those towns as you may find another involved in your towns and perhaps in your searched for families. There are a number of our List Members who are very intelligent in their specific Ortenau areas. While noting these new entries I realized that although I have only one family to search in this Ortenau area, that family moved around, married into families of other towns and spread through a large part of the northern Ortenau. Of the four major towns where my Sur/Saur/Sauer family was involved, I thought I knew many details about the towns and the families within those towns but then I realized that I will never know as much about Önsbach as Rose knows, that Beverly will always be smarter than I about the history of Zusenhofen and Dan will overshadow any knowledge I might learn about Urloffen. Add to those brilliant genealogists our Germany-located List Administrator and I believe that most questions I might ever ask could be answered by another on this List. If you are an old member of this List and have any questions about your ancestors and their lives that you have never asked, ask, you might find a wonderful surprise in answer to your question. If you are one of those new members of this List and have not formulated your question, think it over and offer your question about your ancestors. From the knowledge of those others on this List, you may learn more than you thought you could learn. djweber [email protected] And, for those new List members, remember all the availabilities of the Companion Pages, both Search possibilities, the Sources, the Links, the Map, etc. Maybe the best instruction would be for you to click away and see what you find. Your List Administrator has given us much more information than is available for most any other Rootsweb List.