A further thought on this thread. If you have looked at the "Sources" section of < http://ortenau.speedyspace.de/search/ >, you know that the current list of available linked information includes a number of titles and it is growing almost weekly. If you haven't looked at the page, perhaps the current title listings below might suggest information for your Baden hometown at that "Sources" link. djweber [email protected] ---------------------------- Ortssippenbücher (Kinship Books) Index Altenheim Dundenheim Ichenheim (partial Index) Kippenheimweiler Müllen Schutterzell ------------------------------------- Auswanderer (emigrants) Aus den Memoiren einer alten Offenburgerin Diersburg Hofweier Niederschopfheim Nordrach Prinzbach und Schönberg Schutterwald --------------------------------------- Andere Quellen (other sources) Ortsarchive (Town archives) Teilnehmer an Napoleons Feldzug 1812 (soldiers for Napoleon) Achern - Kirchensteuerliste (churchrate list) 1666 Durbach - Familiennamen (surnames) Gamshurst - Geschichte der Pfarrei Hornberg - Bauernhöfe (farms) 1471-1590 Hugsweier - Bürger (citizen) 1793 Nußbach - Kirchenbuch (parish record) 1645 Zunftmitglieder (member of guilds) in Offenburg 1705-1714 Renchen - Familiennamen (surnames) Steinach - Familiennamen (surnames) Bürgerverzeichnis des ehemaligen Amtes Willstätt 1590 Hausinschriften im Hanauerland (house inscriptions in Hanauer country) Windschläg - Familiennamen (surnames) Dokumente von Kloster Wittichen (documents of cloister Wittichen Bürgerverzeichnis von Zell a. H. --------------------------------------- Calendertool (Julian to Gregorian / Gregorian to Julian) --------------------------------------- Other towns Familiennamen von (familynames of) Rastatt