They didn't ask for any payment at all. I e-mailed my request and didn't hear anything in return for a couple weeks. It was a very pleasant surprise to find a response, even in German. I plugged it in the babelfish translation site--easy! If someone doesn't want to attempt writing (that's for you, Pat,) in German, I'd use one of the form letters available for use on the various German Genealogy sites or use a translation site such as babelfish to write your own letter and translate it into German. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: Neva & Donna Muehlenbein <[email protected]> To: Westmas Family <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [GERMANKING] State Archives-Detmold Nancy, what was the charge for the emmigration lookup and did you pay in American money or German? I need to look up my Mühlenbein family who left Germany in 1854. Neva -----Original Message----- From: Westmas Family <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:13 PM Subject: [GERMANKING] State Archives-Detmold >Pat McCoy asked for info on the State Archives in Detmold. > >Their e-mail address is [email protected] > >Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchive Detmold >Willi-Hofmann-Str.2 >32756 Detmold > >They did a look up of Auswanderung (emigration) requests for me. I e-mailed >my request in my feeble German and they replied in German. > >Good luck >Nancy > > > >==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== >Brother, >Can you spare $10 dollars to support Rootsweb? >Ask me why..... mailto:[email protected] > >