Hello Tina, What I wrote was that ‘many came from Alsace and Lorraine,(I should have put AND here instead of just a comma)the Saarland and from other areas in present day Germany’. Part of the Saarland was Deutsch-Lothringen, that’s where some of my ancestors came from. I have been there twice and visited all the villages mentioned in the Bukin book. The cemeteries were not of much help. Very few graves go back a hundred an fifty years, but the names of the descendants (?relatives) especially the Kochs were still there in very large numbers. Sorry for not being very precise. Anne