Hello, Paul and good luck on your genealogical searches. It may be difficult for you to get much farther back than 1667. As you probably know, the 30 years war raged through Bohemia from 1618 to 1648. Many records were destroyed (or, at least those few records that existed - prior to that time not many were literate, even among the clergy) and the population was decimated, such that at the end of the war, the Hapsbergs brought in people to settle the area, mostly from either Bavaria or other parts of Austria. So, prior to about 1650 most of our ancestors probably lived elsewhere and there may not be records wherever they did come from. All that said, there were references to Eberls in a book I have about my ancestoral village, Auherzen (Uherce), which is perhaps 5 km east of Saluschen (Zaluzi). An Eberl from Saluschen married Anna Schaffer from #9 in Auherzen sometime in the late 1700s or very early 1800s. I would be interested in knowing whether she moved to Saluschen and what her husband's name was, if you have that information. That Anna was the aunt of my great-great grandfather, who immigrated to Wisconsin. In addition, Andreas Eberl married Maria Schaffer (born June 3, 1825), the sister of my great-great grandfather, on Jan 1, 1845. I will repeat what it says in the book about Andreas Eberl, although I don't entirely understand it. Andr. Eberl, Litt. 7 [Litt. is an abbreviation, although I don't know for what - I cannot find a village that begins Litt in the region on a map I have] (Bauer [farmer] "Tschowitzen?) I assume Tschowitzen is also a village, although I don't know where. So, not much helpful information, but a little. Best wishes. Jack Schaffer ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Eberl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:31:31 PM Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] EBERL Hello. I am new to this group. I am researching my czech ancestors, surname EBERL, who farmed in the Kotovice-Zaluzi area for over 300 years. The earliest I have is Casparus EBERL who lived in Zaluzi #7 from 1667 to 1754. Can anyone help me? Paul Eberl German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message