>From the Alsace-Lorraine rootsweb e-mail group (or whatever we call ourselves) I was given lots of old german translation and general Alsace research information and thought I'd pass it along in case it's helpful to anyone else. I have not yet tried any of these places but plan to and will let you know if they are worth a try once I find the time - if anyone else has used or tries them else, please let me know how they are. Joan - can you give this to the guy at Geyer please. Thanks, Sara This one I already posted - old german style letters, I used it last night and it was incredibly helpful, he wrote just the way my gggrandfather did. It's at http://www.genealogy.com/gene/gifs/script1.gif If I Can...You Can Read Old German - a book that's apparently at all the LDS FHCs. The Alsace Emigration Book by Corneilia Schrader-Muggenthaler, published by Closson Press at rclosson@nb.net. It is at 125 libraries around the country from what I understand. The German Genealogy Society, P.O. Box 6600661, Sacramento, CA 95866 has a sample list of old german writing. It's apparently $3 and you have to send a SASE. "How Old Germans Wrote" by Bert Knupp is 200 frequently used words written several different ways. Bert can be reached at bert.knupp@nashville.com. He's very informative and doesn't charge for this info but would accept donations. I believe he is also a professional translator. I was also given the names/e-mails of several people that you can hire to do translations. If you want those, e-mail me and I'll get them for you. Hope this helps some one. Sara