Here is an outline to find ancestral villages in the Bohemian Forest Region. Click on this website below and then on the links given there under the village names....search on the hand-drawn detail maps for the village of your ancestors. 1. http://www.webingerhaus.de/rahmenkarten.html If you find the name of the village you are looking for, then go to this website to find the new Czech name. 2. http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/ and scroll down to "Ortsbeschreibung" where you will find an alphabet from which you can select the first letter of the German name of the village where your family came from. Although the entire text is in German, you can find the Czech name there, and also what church registers are available. Often there are several settlements registered at the same church. You will find and entry with "*" for birth, "oo" for marriage, and "+" for death registers and the years available. To read this page, you don't need a translation, it is self explanatory, just find the village names and the years. Everything listed there is on microfilm at the archives at Pilsen, but you have to hire a genealogist to retrieve it for you. To get more recent information you can key in the new Czech village name into this link: 3. www.mapy.cz This is a Czech website of that German village under the new Czech name, and there is a lot of information on this page, and also a map you can reduce or enlarge. I hope that this will give you a quicker way to go about your search. You will also find on this Czech map the GPS of subject village (i.e. Latitude and Longitude) and having this, you can go to a conventional detail map of your choice to find the exact location. On the gridmap link given below, almost every house is shown by a black dot. These maps are k&k military maps from before WW1, about the time your ancestors came to America. After you have followed the above steps, go to the map below and search by coordinates (Lat & Longt.): 4. http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm Aida