That trip to Ohio allowed me some time to visit a good genealogical library. I had a chance to spend some time on two far-from finished ancestral lines; those lines which my mother-in-law brought to the family for my children and where I fear her ghost is protecting the secret of her ancestry from me. One of the lines is the much too common potential search for a Johann Jäger (born in 1843) while the other is for a certainly fictious surname with the name being Martin Bichimer (born in 1840). However, the Jäger line finally gave me a clue; a clue of origin as "Baydin" which sadly might be Baden or might be Bayern. Even this clue is still hidden within the secret. Hoping that it might be Baden, I have ordered the proper LDS roll of film for the Baden Emigration Index. In various other searchings, there is a hint (from what I consider as a often flawed IGI) that a Johann Jäger was born in 1843 in Ichenheim. I am looking for a Johann Jäger who emigrated about 1872 (at least before 1875) with a wife of an unknown name (but then she might have died in Germany before the emigration) however with children, Johann Ignaz born in 1868 and twins Carry (probably Karolina) and Lena (Magdalena) born in 1870. Does anyone have access to a Familienbuch for Ichenheim which offers any positive or negative information about its born-in-1843 Johann Jäger? djweber [email protected]