In a message dated 11/4/2005 5:28:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, akibb1@verizon.net writes: This seems to me almost unworkable. I agree with Aida. In general it is unworkable unless one of us would write to Sweden for records of German-bohemians who settled there. I don't know how one would get those records otherwise. That is when the research would probably hit a wall be cause the Swedish authorities would probably have to demand that all the required permissions be presenjted. I can imagine one scenario for a family of German-Bohemian ancestry who were the only surviving representatives of two G-B families and who fled to Sweden during the war. Assume that there may have been only one son born in the first generation and he had only one son with a woman who was an only daughter of other G-B immigrants.. The woman had no living relatives when she married . When the two of them died their only daughter went to the US. The daughter's only child now wants a marriage and death record of the grandparents and she must furnish "permission" from living relatives (there are none in the U.S. and if there are any in Germany they are unknown). What proof can Sweden possibly demand that there are no living relatives? How can they verify whatever is presented as authentic.? If someone publishes an Internet website just for family members with the password, how will Sweden know what it on it? For that matter how will they know what is out there at all -- are they going to have experts who surf constantly looking for offenders who have published Swedish surnames without the permissions required? And then what can they do about it if the offender is not a Swedish citizen?? I suspect that the worst case scenario will be that the LDS respects the Swedish law and will not release any Swedish records without some sort of documentation related to necessary permission. They have found a way to deal with privacy laws in Eastern Europe that impede research and so have many of the EE archivists. Access is not denied at SLC as long as a researcher signs a certain "permission form". However the LDS will not circulate any filmed records that contain ANY documents dated earlier than 100 years old for many EE lands. This affects a lot of Austrian military records among others - they can only be viewed in SLC. But there are provisions for SLC professionals to look at them for a client. Some of these pros charge a "single item fee" of $100. That can be cheap compared to the cost of a trip to SLC.. Karen