Here is the text that I found on two interesting web sites: Sources about emigration in the State Archives of Lower-Saxony www.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de "From this page you can enter a "search energie" for thematical inventories made by the State Archives of Osnabrück and Wolfenbüttel as well as the Main State Archives of Hanover on the theme "Emigration in the 18th and 19th centuries. In those descriptions you can look for people who have emigrated – especially to America – during the foresaid period. The fonds were analysed by the three archives and the informations are resumed in the field "Titelaufnahme" (i.e. title) of the izn-AIDA database". Bridges to a new world: www.expool.de. "From 4th May to 31st October 2000 the project "Bridges to a new world" will be presented in the Kornspeicher" of the "Herzog-August-Bibliothek" in Wolfenbüttel. The results of the extensive scientific research within several years are resumed in an exhibition catalog. Besides the emigrants' names, arranged in alphabetical order, six examples show the reasons and intentions of people to leave the former Duchy of Brunswick. They correspond with the six stations of the exhibition where by means of documents and exhibits reasons, background and consequences of the emigration become more transparent." Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 10 a. m. - 8 p. m. e-mail: stadtmarketing@wolfenbuettel.com . John C. Kornblum ( US. Ambassador to Germany) serves as Schirmherr for this Worldwide Expo Project. Cornelia