PATRICIA S. SMITH wrote: > > YOur answers are interesting, but don't quite help. The word zug appears > along with individual names in the church records and appear to be the > occupation or the citizenship of the person. Train doesn't fit. What about an abbreviation ? Like zug. for "zugereist", "zugezogen", "zugegen". Please write a whole sentence in which that "zug" occurs. I think I could understand the meaning. Dieter