To Joan or anyone else out there who might know... I have an old log book of sorts kept by Georg Maschino - Sophia Geiger's son-in-law. It's written in what we believe is old german. My father grew up hearing his relatives speak it and can translate quite a bit of it - the problem we are having is the shape of quite a few of the letters, they just don't correspond to anything we can figure out. H's look like elaborate S's and S's are F's, and other strange things we've been able to determine simply because we know the names of a lot of the people he recorded but the rest is lost on us. Obviously that computer translation program won't help in this situation - does any one know of any place or resource I can turn to get some of this translated? I'm pretty sure with just knowing what the letters are we can go from there. Thanks, Sara (jadikjr@erols.com) [searching Maschino, Maginot, Geiger, Haas, Walmer]