You can find any town or region on earth at http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/towns.htm Sites #1 and #2 use soundex, so if you get pretty close to the spelling, it will pop up, with some awesome maps. Ancient maps are available via http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/hesse.htm ;~) Don ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> "b. 20 Feb 1848 in Gnaschwitz (alternatively recorded in family records as Graschwitz and Gnauschwitz) near Bautzen, Saxony" Another family member says he might have been born in Goerlitz