In a message dated 4/23/01 10:02:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > BTW, Joan, wasn't Alsace part of that area that kept bouncing between France > and German ownership? That could explain it! <bg> Anne- Yes--and they were German-speaking. Who knows where they were originally from, but they were in Lembach at least from the very late 1600s. Joan