The URL below is to download a PDF that is an index of all the surnames on CDs for the book Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien Save the PDF to file to study later even if you don't think you need it. _http://www.genealogie-service.de/download/DGB/GROSREG.pdf_ (http://www.genealogie-service.de/download/DGB/GROSREG.pdf) There are 64 volumes in the original publication with 8 additional since then. The PDF lets a researcher find names that sound like a family surname as well as the surname itself. It also references the volume and page number on which the surname is found. The reference to a CD is for those inclined to purchase a CD version of the volume(s) they need. These CDs with 10 or so volumes on each can be more than $50 each and in my case I would have to get three of them to cover all of the volumes that had my family surnames. There is a less expensive possibility. There is a Wurttemburg district library at Stuttgart that shows they have thees books. I may be possible to request a lookup once one has the right books and pages per the data in the PDF. First try the Heimat Library at Stuttgart. I have posted contact informatrion for that regional Heimat library many times and now I must ask list members who have that data to please send it back to me. I have a new PC and when I installed my mail server all my old addresses disappeared. Please post the contact info to the list so list members can ask those super friendly librarians to please scan and email the pages needed. The books are shown at the Wurttemberg Regional library and it may be possible to get someone to look up information and scan/Email pages from there, too. _http://wwwneu.wlb-stuttgart.de:8080/Sykas/HLS/Systematik/H/HLS_H_016/HLS_H_01 6_005/HLS_H_016_005_005/hls_titel?sig_sort_ab=HU+02980&sig_sort_bis=HU+03500_ (http://wwwneu.wlb-stuttgart.de:8080/Sykas/HLS/Systematik/H/HLS_H_016/HLS_H_01 6_005/HLS_H_016_005_005/hls_titel?sig_sort_ab=HU+02980&sig_sort_bis=HU+03500) They may NOT have ALL the books. They have an Email contact and question form at: _http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/die-wlb/ansprechpartner/kontaktformular/_ (http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/die-wlb/ansprechpartner/kontaktformular/) If you write them make it very simple with one line for each data item following a general question like, "Is it possible fo get scanned copies of the following pages from Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien? We don't want to flood them with requests which would tempt them to say "Forget it!" so if you plan to send a request, please tell the list so others can wait a while to process their requests. These lists do not necessarily include German Bohemians. But they DO include the names of families who may have sent settlera to Bohemia after the Thirty Years War. If you are interested only in German Bohemians and don't care about their ancestors from the German principalities in the 17th Century, you might ask one of the libraries to tell you firrst of all if there are any German Bohemians represented in those books. Karen **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001)