Lois, Only a quick andnot a proper answer as I am reading my mail through my son's computer; my computer is an annoyance right now as I have a mouse which does what it wants to do, a mouse which must be replaced as a mouse over which I have no control. As to Rottenburg, I am not smart enough to give you a proper answer from memory but using < http://tomcat-dmaweb1.jrc.it/fuzzyg/query/ > which Beverly identified last month, unchecking the All Countries and the All Features and dragging down Germany and Populated Place, it gives you only one town in the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a number of other locations but some very similar town names in B-W. At < http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp > it identifies only one Rottenburg in B-W. I did not search the < http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm > site as it is more difficult to identify the Federal State as attached to the town at that URL. The possible answer is that your ancestor, if not found in the Rottenburg records, was most likely from a close-by town and her identification of Rottenburg meant of the area rather than of the specific town. Unfortunately this happens too often for any large town. In the B-W area, you often see a search for someone born in Baden-Baden (at a time when no Baden-Baden existed) or from Stuttgart but correctly from some town 10 to 20 kilometers away. In one of my own searches the family records said Danzig but they were from towns in the Danzig lands and not the Danzig town. Have you found others of same surname in the town at the same era? Is is possible that Sybilla was baptized with another first name? Often Church Register information on an individual shows a different first name at baptism as compared to marriage or bearing children. While the surname is not an uncommon surname, looking for females in the approximate several years of birth may be the first try. And then there is the fear of a similar spelled town name. djweber [email protected] -------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Lois Kamlage <[email protected]> Sent: Nov 21, 2005 9:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Ortenau] Rottenburg in Wurttemburg Hello, I just want to make sure I am researching the right Rottenburg. Is there more than 1 Rottenburg in Wurttemberg. My ancestor Sybilla Leonhardt listed this as her place of birth in her marriage record. I have searched some church records in Rottenburg and have found no sign of her. I even searched some civil files. I know that there is more than one Rottenburg but is there only one in Wurttemburg? Thanks for any help? Lois