Listers, If you want the Bishofteinetz book, Unser Heimatkreis Bishofteinetz, Your best bet is to have Bob Paulson pick up a book for you while he is in Germany.. If he cannot get enough books or is unable to carry books for everyone who wants one there are other options. There are also other titles listed below that may be of interest to more list members. By the way, Rudy Kiefner whose family Bob Paulson will visit also published: Bezirk Bischofteinitz in alten Ansichtskarten (The area of Bischofteinetz from old postcards) You may be able to get a copy of a book you want from Germany if you contact the Bishofteinetz Heimat Verein. http://www.bischofteinitz.de/verein.htm There are links for Email contact there. Any one of these people might be able to tell you if there are any books available. There is another web page that has links to all the various Heimat Verein. http://www.sudeten.de/bas/index_a.htm If you get the home page, click on LINKS on the left to get the links index. The home page has two greyed out maps of the Sudeten areas of Bohemia on it. I have never found a Heimat website with an English option but you may be able to translate it if you are able to do your search from Google.com. There may be options to [translate this page] if you hit it on Google. Most of these websites will have 1) and Email address link for contact near the webmaster info at the bottom of the page 2) a link for Kontakt at the side of the page 3) a link for Namen und Addressen or just Addressen on the side of the page. 4) Maybe a link for "Betreuer" or "Ortsbetreuer" or "Heimatbetreuer". (contact persons) 5) a picture of an addressed envelope which is a link for Email. Click on any one of those contact links to send the Verein an Email. Sometimes when an elderly person dies his family will give away or sell his books. Heimatbucher may be offered to a Heimat verein. When they know that someone wants one of those books they may notify that person that one is now available. If they do not have a "waiting list" for any books and they already have enough copies in their library they will turn them over to an antiquariat to sell. Look for your ancestral Heimat Vereine and find an Orsbetreuer (place coordinator or contact) you can ask about books including ancestral villages and towns. Sometimes it is the director of the Heimatmuseum who knows about the "extra books". ---------------------------------- Another very good site for searching mutiple antiquariats in Germany and Austria is the ZVAB website or. Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher Normally one could search the Internet with ZVAB and the first hit would be the above website. That worked for me today. But when I wanted to go there a second time all my tries were redirected to choosebooks.com http://www.choosebooks.com/SESSz172562949811141521711/gr2/en/index.html I don't know why that happened. I could not get the five hits for that title at the Choosebooks.com website which appears to be the ZVAB general sales page. It lets you choose German or English by clicking on the flag in the upper right of the window. After you find a title you can click on the dealer's link and contact them directly if you wish. There is a bulletin board there where you can post the information about a book that you want. While trying to find the Bishofteinetz book at that website with a search using the word: Heimatkreis I found another book that some list members may want: Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen (Hrsg) Der Heimatkreis Mies. Land und Leute an Miesa und Radbusa Dinkelsbühl, Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen, 1962 [ search for this title] 24 x 17 cm, 752 S. mit zahlr. Abbildungen. OLn m. silbergeprägter Deckel- und Rückenbeschriftung, Einband leicht ausgeblichen und Papier altersbedingt etwas gebräunt, guter Zustand. [Keywords: Orts- und Landeskunde Brauchtum; Heimatgeschichte; Kulturgeschichte; Landeskunde; Sudetenland; Tschechien] item number 20344v 10194 further entries found in catalogue Gesamtkatalog offered by Antiquariat an der Universität, Germany ------------------- and --------------- [Landeskunde ] "Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz" (Hg.) Unser Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz mit den deutschen Siedlungen im Bezirk Taus. Herausgeber "Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz" Sitz Furth im Wald o.O., 1967 [ search for this title] [Keywords: Deutschland] language: German item number 1993CB 447 further entries found in catalogue Deutschland offered by Antiquariat Weinek, Austria It is interesting that the keyword Deutschland is used by an Austrian used book dealer to identify a German-Bohemian Heimatbuch!!! ----------------------------- I also found books from the heimats of EGER, MIES , PILSEN , BRAUNAU(er) , ZWITTAU (Schonhengst), and a history of the monastery and city of KLADRAU. I did not search alli 38 hits. To get the same list, search very soon with the word: Heimatkreis at the URL for choosebooks above When I was first able to get the ZVAB home page and not their sales page (Choosebooks.com) I got five hits for Unser Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz There were prices from EU 40 up to EU 67. I managed to copy the data from one before I could no longer get the ZVAB website. It looked like a good buy but when I visited the website for that Antiquariat -- . http://www.antiquariat-pressler.de/ They did not show the title in their catalog so the book may no longer be available. Antiquariat Bernd Preßler, D-34127 Kassel, Germany berndpressler@aol.com Send an Email and ask if the book is still available and at what price. When I order books from an antiquariat I look for the lowest price, the condition of the book and it they take credit cards or not. I always choose a store that takes credit cards because that gives me the best exchantge rate which usually saves more than a cheaper book requiring funds transfer.. Ask for a quote of the cost with air mail to the US as well as one with surface mail. When I ask for airmail it is usually a little over $20 but I have the book in less than 2 weeks. Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen e.V. (Hrg) (Publisher) Pilsen. Heimatstadt seiner deutschen Bewohner und Metropole an der Sprachgrenze. Ein Lesebuch bearbeitet von Dr. Anton Herzig Dinkelsbühl o.V. 1978 This book about Pilsen as Heimat city of its German residents -- city on the language frontier -- had these notations: [ search for this title] 4° 244 S., (244 pages) S/w Fotos (Photos), Illustrationen u. Karten (illustrations and maps), geprägter grauer Oln, illustr. OSU OSU etwas berieben u. unfrisch, sonst guter Zustand (this last part of the sentence describes the book as generally good condition but it looks used Karen