Thanks, Curt! I was able to find the website. Now the next challenge is how to translate what's there to English so I can understand what I'm reading. Thanks, again! Pat ============================================================ [email protected] wrote: > <<"The family WATERHOLTER, also written WATERHOLTER with an umlaut over the > 'O', comes from Wissentrup, which lies near Lage, close to Detmold." > "There is still a piece of land there that is still called "The WATERHOLZ". > I'm in the process of trying to get the address of the State Archives in > Detmold >> > > Patricia, > Hey, this is pretty exciting. I am researching close to the same area. My > ancesters came from farms near the villages of > Hörtsmar & Hagen just a 4 miles northeast of Wissentrup. My atlas shows > Wissentrup just 1 mile southwest of Lage. No map references to 'The > Waterholz', but it may be an area too small for my atlas to show. > > Please check out the Nordrhein-Westfalen rootsweb site & choose > Kreis-Lippe. All the needed info is located there from state archive > addresses to church addressess to local genealogical societies addresses. > They also list URL's for each. > http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe_ev-d.html > This is an old URL & may not be good still. If you can't find the website, > let me know & I'll forward the URL when I get home from work. > > The following site gives a short history of the Principality of Lippe (and > the nobility) > http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe.html > > Just for the fun of it, why don't you do a German telephone directory > search to see if there are WALTERHOLTER/WALTERHOLZ families still there. > Go to: > http://www02.teleauskunft.de/cgi-bin/tron.cgi > or http://www.teldir.com/de/ > > My lines from that area: BRANDSMEIER, DRIER, HOFEMANN, DUSTERSIEK, > EHLENBROKER, ENGELER, FINNEN, KRIETENSTEIN, PRUSZNER or PRÜSSNER. Any of > these surnames come up in your research? > > Best of luck in your search. > Curt > > ==== GERMAN-KINGDOMS Mailing List ==== > Brother, > Can you spare $10 dollars to support Rootsweb? > Ask me why..... mailto:[email protected]