Gary, it sounds as though you may have already done the things I would suggest for you to locate John George Geiger's village of origin in Wuerttemberg--I assume you looked for immigration and naturalization records both in New York and in Baltimore? NYC would be a common port city for John George to have arrived in in the 1840s. Unlike the earlier arriving Germanic settlers who tended to be more "rural" in the areas they settled in those who arrived in the 1840s were much more prone to have settled in cities. My guess would be that economics would have been the reason for his move to Baltimore rather than existing family ties in the area--but it never hurts to consider the possibility of connections to the area. Allied families were extremely important. The family ties if they did exist in Baltimore might NOT have been Geigers. It is generally meaningless and futile to attempt to search Wuerttemberg records without knowing where to look from something you find in this country. Since John George died prior to 1875 this is too early to appear on the Baltimore City death index. The best chance you have would be to find some immigration or naturalization record. Also, how about church records in America? What religion was John George? The religion can often point you in the right direction as to where to look in Wuerttemberg also. Parish registers in America sometimes tell you the village of origin in Germany. Most of the colonial immigrants were Lutheran, Reformed, or some other Protestant denomination; while many of the later-arriving immigrants were Catholic. They also came from different areas of Germany than the colonial settlers. Joan