In a message dated 4/20/2006 2:05:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, pedrodrimel@gmail.com writes: I'm Brazilian and I'm started to looking for relatives DRIMEL, so using google I found on this link http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/database/databaseag.html Franz Drimel borned in 1830 on Neu Waldek (Nový Valdek in czech), Zwittau... Nowadays Zwittau is Svytavy and Nový Valdek is a independent village 7km far from Svitavy. Could someone help me ? Thanks! Franz Drimel can be my grandgrandgrandfather so I have to find some documents. Dear Pedro, You need to ask a Czech researcher to go to the archive for Zwittau church records and find out more about Franz -- who his parents were and if he had any children born in Zwittau/ New Waldek. Zwittau may have had the parish church for the other village and the records would be there. A good researcher will be able to find out if New Waldek had its own parish church and records. There is a website that may tell you what church records are available at http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kreise.html Click on the letter Z and find Zwittau (in Moravia). There will be other information there but it may not give the list of church records. A researcher who lives in Moravia is cubasmith@email.cz Jakub Smid Jablonova 63 City: Brno State: 621 00 Country: Czech Republic He is very good and thorough. If you know the names of your ancestor's brothers or sisters it would help. Church records are the first search when you have a place of birth. Sometimes you can find other places of birth for the same name if you look for civil records like census indexes and military recruitment rolls. Karen Hobbs Colorado springs