For anyone who wishes to look at some of the farms in the Boehmerwald, (Bohemian forest, Sumava) here is a link where you can see how some of the larger farms (Gutshof) looked when the German owners lived there and what they found when they came back to visit... Go to this link, it is one available in English. Those of you who are from the Egerland, these larger farms had the same architecture there and the tenant families lived there sometimes for centuries with the owners. On this page, there are also a few village names given and names mentioned, just in case it would fit into your family. Forgive the bitterness on this page, but a person robbed of their ancestral home becomes "homeless" until the next generation plants their own roots into a new homeland, wherever the wind of fate has scattered them since the expulsion between 1945-1948, after WW2. German Bohemians lived for centuries on their farms and each generation built on this inheritance and "made it prettier" than it was before, this was their pride. Ours was not a "moving or wandering" society, but a very earthbound one, and the expulsion has impacted very harshly on these families. Aida http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jschopper/englisch.htm