Lois, It would still be a needle in a haystack if your ancestor is from a neighboring town but two of those web sites will give you neighboring towns and one of those town names might be a key for you. From < http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp > after you have located your town in Baden-Wuerttemberg, click on the "Nearest Neighbours" block. This will give you the nearest neighboring towns in all directions. At < http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm > after you pick out your correct town, click on the dot to the right of the line for that town. This will give you more towns in total as the distance allowed here is a higher figure. Not that I want to search in every town but the town names may be handy to know in case while you have been searching Sybilla at Rottenburg, some strange town name might have appeared and it was not known that it was a town. djweber [email protected] ------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Kamlage" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: [Ortenau] Leonhardts in Rottenburg > Thanks to all who answered my query. I thought too that she might have > been from a nearby town, but which one? I found 15 nearby towns. I also > know that Sybilla might not be her 1st given name but have no clue as to > what other name she might have. I have made contact with a William Meier > who is also searching Rottenburg records and he found some Leonhards, but > no Sybilla. Thanks Wendelin for the info. If I come across any Irslingers > in my search, I will let you know. Thanks Klaus for letting me know that > there are still Leonhards in Rottenburg. A belated thanks to you DJ for > helping me get a query to the list. At least I now know that there is only > one Rottenburg in Wuerttemburg. If any one runs across any info on > Leonhards in the Rottenburg area, I would appreciate hearing from you. > Thanks to all again. Lois >