I'm sure there were other Spomers in Germany, But I only found the two brothers that went to Russia. There is a possibility of a relationship but you would have to go back in the Parish records to find it. I don't think that particular family left for Russia because you have the marriage record for 1816, which is much later than the 1766 of the Volga migration. Boundaries changed a lot in Germany over the years, so you have to find the time period you are searching to find the country the village is in. This one was easy. There are 8 (eight) Marbachs in Germany, three in Württemberg. When I saw one that used the name Marbach am Neckar, I knew I had it. Marbach is in the Ober Marbach area of Neckarkreis in the Odenwald area of northern Württemberg. It is northeast of Heidelberg and south of Michelstadt. Marbach had its own Lutheran Parish Church and the records have been microfilmed. The film number is 1187105 if you want to check it out. I had a nice email response from that same Dec. 6th email I sent. This was from Marven Weitzel and he does indexing for the LDS family search project. This project is planning on indexing the thousands of church parish microfilms in their vaults and they are calling on volunteers to do it. Marven Weitzel has indexed some of the German films but hadn't seen the ones I mentioned yet. He said he would order through his Family History Center in Texas. You may well want to contact him for further help. His email is < [email protected] >. I'm sure there are "project" workers at many other FHLs so other researchers should check their local FHC for names of indexes that may help them. You can also go to < www.familysearch.org > and see if the project has indexed the microfilm you are interested in. Once the film is indexed (in English), it will make searching the parish records much easier. Jerry Goertzen