If you haven't been there yet, pay a timely visit to http://users.rootsweb.com/~deuhes/Hessen/index.htm and scroll down to the Genealogy Super Store link about 2/3rds of the way down the page. Click on that, then on International, then Europe, and scroll down to "Germanic Address Book for Genealogy." Here is a description: This work, in its fifth edition, is indispensable for genealogical researchers with interests in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other Germany-speaking areas of central and western Europe. The contents include 196 genealogical and related societies outside Europe, 56 archives, 175 German-American religious organizations, 112 booksellers or importers, 79 foreign information offices, and 24 German-language newspapers in North America; 32 national or regional archives in Germany; 250 other European archives; 777 municipal archives in Germany and other European countries; 279 Germanic genealogical/historical societies; and 253 genealogists specializing in German research. ;~) Don