Frank Kuhn schrieb: > > Regina, > I believe that the SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH that you mention is really > SACHSEN-WEIMAR-EISENACH which was the old name of present day > THURINGEN. I do not believe that it refers to a town between WEIMAR > and EISENACH. Surely not. The state of Thuringia has been refounded 1920, the time before it was divided in 8 fully independed duchies and principalities: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach Sachsen-Koburg-Gotha Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Sachsen-Meiningen Sachsen-Altenburg Reuss juengere Linie Reuss aeltere Linie Some central an northern parts belonged to Prussia (Provinz Sachsen). I notice, that many american ancestor seekers are confused of the lot of "Saxonies" in German history. Let me give a short explanation. There are: 1. The former Kingdom of Saxony (today: Freistaat Sachsen). The biggest towns are Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. 2. The former province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen). It was a part of Prussia around the cities of Magdeburg and Halle. Since 1945 it is united with the former duchy of Anhalt to the federal state of Sachsen-Anhalt. 3. Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). Today a German federal state it has less political or historical roots (it was founded 1946, former states were Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and parts of Anhalt and Hessen) but more linguistic togetherness: All people speak nearly the same Nether German dialect. These Saxons in the ancient days decided to conquer England, America and so on ... 4. Some of the Thuringian principalities also weared the name of Saxony, but they did not belong to one the upper listet Saxon territories. The origin of these names were of dynastic reasons. Dieter