about Treffelhausen. I called to numbers on the phone list mentioning Geiger's and the first one - well, he had no idea what I was talking of and thought I wanted to tease him when he said at the phone "Geiger, Guten Abend!" - I answered "Hier ist auch Geiger, aber aus dem Saarland" - This is also Geiger, but from the State of Saarland. I asked him about someone who researches family things and he only mentioned "I don't care for such stuff" - crack. Gone he was. Hm. Next one. "Well, I don't know anything but call my father - he might know". I called his father - Heinrich on the list - last Sunday afternoon and also he didn't know Vitus or Johannes Geiger he mentioned that the profession "Söldner" was not a mercenary or a soldier but a day labourer. A man who gets "Sold" - the old word for wages. Heinrich Geiger told me to contact a Karl Oswald, author of a history book about the community of Boehmkirch where Treffelhausen belongs to. Maybe the book mentions Emigrants from Treffelhausen. I will keep you informed. Roland Geiger, St. Wendel, Germany