Judy Torp wrote: > Not quite the title above- but do you know anything about Magdeburg Germany. Anything ? Of course I do. > My daughter will be attending a festival there June 9-11, 2000- her ballet > school ( in London, England) is performing. Couldn't find anything on web > except hotels. thanks for any info you may have. Sorry, that's your task. Some efficient German search engines are http://meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/ http://www.fireball.de/ http://altavista.de/ http://www.yahoo.de http://www.acoon.de/ and the most promising idea surely would be to purchase one of these printed guidebooks. > My family name is Reuss- we just can't > find out where my great grandfather left Germany from, born at etc... just > know his parents name and when he came to USA but not where. Never met him or > my grandfather- his son.- none of the grandchildren know anything > eithre.Still searching. I saw many good hints how to start on Don Watson's wonderful Hesse site: http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/index.htm * Dieter