In a message dated 8/25/2000 10:05:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, GERMAN-KINGDOMS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I am researching the Helwig family. The earliest I have is August J. Helwig, > b. Sept. 1839, who apparently emigrated to America from Lippe-Detmold. Can > anyone point me in the appropriate direction to find more information on > him? Have you been to an LDS Family History Center yet? Some of the Lippe-Detmold church registers are on film in their library. You can probably find indexes to your own locality using FamilySearch's library search engine. Find it at <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/">LDS</A>. Good hunting! Bob RKluckhohn@aol.com