Try your local library for the book by Angus Baxter, "Searching for your German Ancestors" He also has a second book "Searching for your European Ancestors" Both will be helpful but the first one is exclusively about Germany and contains more detail. Good Luck Frank At 12:57 4/12/97 +0000, you wrote: >Has anyone with German-Bohemian ancestors been able to trace them back >into Bavaria or elsewhere in Germany? >Greenbrown@aol.com > Frank Robert Plichta plichta@worldnet.att.net P.O. Box 305, Galax, VA 24333-0305 "Quaerere summa reum familia PLICHTA." "Buscando el mundo por los PLICHTA." "Je cherche le monde pour les famille PLICHTA." "Ich suche nach PLICHTAs in der ganzen Welt." "Searching the world for PLICHTAs." Plichta/Plihta/Plichtova/Pleta Sie koennen mir in deutsch oder english schreiben. Plichtas originated in: Slovakia, Czech, Poland, and Germany.