Family names in my fathers tree listed by town going back 6 generations (umlauts and accents removed per admin) with origins noted: VELISKOVCI: Vrbanac/Wrbanetz/Wrbanek (from Apatin) Bayer/Bajer Balentic Takalic APATIN: Vrbanac/Verbanatz/Verbonatz (origins of this family would be great) Becker Lautenbacher Znamenak Gissinger Mayer Weinketz/Weinkass/Veinketz Schwarzli Keller FILIPOWA (The on-line Filipowa Family Book [ http://filipowa.at/ortssippenbuch.html ] is a great reference for this branch): Schmidt (from Saarbrucken) Ertl (from Marlen, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Wurttemberg) Mattes (from Durbheim, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wurttemberg via Weprowatz, Batschka) Hock Pertschi (from Weigheim, Schwarzwaldkreis, Baden-Wurttemberg) Zollitsch (from Tirschenreuth, Bavaria) Ruppaner (from Mengen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Wurttemberg) Milla (from Biela, Chrudimerkreis, Bohmen) Vitousek/Wituschek Hluschek/Lauschek Martinetz Rapp (from Trillfingen, Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Wurttemberg) Horn (from Trillfingen, Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Wurttemberg) Urich (from Breitenbrunn, Odenwaldkreis, Hessen) KERNEI: Werle Burger Keller (from Apatin) Sonntag Keiling MARIENFELD: Windbacher (origins of this family would be great) Stagl Muller Oll Kollet Schulder Schneider (from Nadwar) Knab BRESONDORF (Konigsgnad/Tirol): Windbacher (from Marienfeld via Kübekháza) GROSS-SCHAM (an on-line tree has many of this family [ http://clandata.sytes.net:2348/clandata?lang=en ]: Damit/Damith (from Diekirch, Luxembourg) Hubert (from Diekirch, Luxembourg) Lorencz/Lorenz (from Trier) Makovitz Osterreicher/Oesterreicher Schneider Neumann (from Jahrmarkt) Oehl (from Knez) NOTABLE BRICK WALLS: - Parents of my 3rd great grandfather Adalbert Bayer (or Bajer) 1825-1867. Though he died in Veliskovci, he and his parents may be from Apatin as so many of the Donauschaben in that town. However, he does not appear in the Apatin Familienbuch. - Fate of my 2nd great grandmother Katarina Windbacher Lohmuller (b. 1861). Last known to be widowed, living in Königsgnad/Tirol in 1923. She was young enough to have seen WWII. - Fate of some of my other 2nd great grandparents: Joseph Vrbanac (b. 1853 Veliskovci), Regina (Bayer) Vrbanac (b. 1857 Veliskovci) and Ferencz Werle (b. 1856 Kernei). Thanks, John