Patsy, I believe generally that the Guild records are kept in the local town archives. In the stockingmaker guild, the letters written by the Guild are in the Zeulenroda town archive. The Staatsarchiv in Greiz had copies of letters received by the Reuss Alte Linie government from the Guild together with the Governments answer. For your ancestors, you should first write to Weimar town archive, also asking, that if they don't have the records, who has. The biggest problem in Germany is finding the right archive, but the people most likely to know are the archivists. They are generally very helpful. Jon