In a message dated 5/11/2006 6:17:17 PM Mountain Standard Time, Scrig@aol.com writes: Aida, I have no lead document-just the information that he was born in Bohmen to Adam and Barbro Ehrl. This information came from Swedish documents found in Uppsala, Sweden so I assume they are church records. Linda Linda, I have not followed this thread very closely. If your ancestor was associated with glass blowing in Bohemia, there were a number of Bohemian glass workers who went to Sweden from the Gablonz area in 1938-39. It is possible they chose to go to Sweden (to escape occupation by the Third Reich) because others from their area had already settled there in the past. One area of glass making that Aida did not mention was in the borderlands with Bavaria. There were still many glasswerks in that area when I lived in Germany in the 1970s. I have read about some of these border gassworks. Some made mirrors and sheet glass and others made stemware and ornamental glassware. The Bohemian patterns and more information about Bohemian glassworks is probably all over the Internet if you search. Many people dislocated from Gablonz area in 1945 ended up in Neu Gabonz in Bavaria where they now produce a lot of the same glass bead products for which Gablonz was famous in the past. You may find someone named Ehrl living in or near Neugablonz if you search the German white pages. It is not a rare surname. Karen