From prior messages, you know that various URLs are being added to the Links section of your companion Search page, < http://ortenau.speedyspace.de/search/ >. We hope each of these URLs may be of some value to you in your ancestral search. Several of these web sites have offered spellings of German first names as, in many cases, we have found children with unique-to-us names. In surfing for additional pages for you, I refound Kate Monk's Onomastikon (Dictionary of Names). These pages have been on-line and off-line a number of times since they were first put on-line in 1997. I feared that they had been removed, never to return to the Internet but a new web site which strongly stresses the copyright information has reestablished them on-line. The home page address is < http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/ > and the top German page is < http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Western/Germany/index.htm >. These pages are not only for German names as they cover most every area of the world and might help you for children's names of any nationality. I hope that this time the pages will remain on-line and I would like to suggest that you read through them, gather information and perhaps copy potentially vital pages for your later personal use. The main web address will be added to the Links section of your Search page; hopefully, the Onomastikon may stay on-line this time but considering its past history I do suggest fast action in using the pages. djweber [email protected]