In a message dated 5/11/2006 10:14:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, Scrig@aol.com writes: <<should I look at Austria and Germany and more or less ignore the others such as Romania?<< The first answer to your question is to beef up your knowledge. You need an historical atlas of Europe that shows border changes and empires over time. The best ones are those that were made before World War I. There is a paperback one you can buy for less than $10 at Amazon or Alibris.com : The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe : Revised and Updated (Paperback) Every genealogist should have an historical atlas at home!!! You may also find maps of the Austro-Hungarian empire and later (1868- 1918) Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy just by searching the Internet for the years of interest. Some of the best maps will be in German so use German words to find them. Alte karten Oesterreich; Osterreich-Ungarn karten, etc. Or try: historical atlas, Eastern Europe historical atlas, Romania if you think you have to have English. There is a military recruiting map showing all the Austrian lands around 1898 at: http://www.kuk-wehrmacht.de/regiment/ It shows all the Austrian lands under the names they had in 1898. Of course it is up to you to compare that to a post 1918 map of Eastern Europe to see which of the old Austro-Hungarian territories Romania absorbed. I pointed out one hit for Althutten in Bukowina because it may have had a glassworks if the name meant anything. Many Germans from Bohemia went there to resettle during the late 18th and early 19th C.. The resettlement records (Ansiederakten) may have your surnames in old Bohemia and could lead you to the place your Swedish settlers originated even though they are not included in those card files. They could still have come from the same glassmaking area in Bohemia as the people who settled Althutten or other glassworks established in Bukowina or Galicia during that period. It is a long shot but easy to do and could help. Karen