Marge: Thanks for your enlightening message. When I saw Stettin, my ears really perked up. But then I realized two things. First my Stetten is spelling differently and is located in Alsace. Also, I believe the Prussian Stettin would likely be the Stetten (Stettin now in Poland which belonged to Germany before World War II ended. I agree with your comments. I found a number of Everards and Evrards using google. Have you tried that. Here is the web site for this expedient search engine www.google.com. Ken >Welcome THIS is fun isn't it! I've been learning along with the rest and >find the information coming in the strangest places! I did a general search >on the internet for my unusual name ... and found two very famous people who >had this strange name both German PhD professors with websites related to >their subjects. -- O'man do you write to these guys and ask if they knew who >their great-great grandparents were? Would you believe the first answered in >only an hour (I about passed out!) ... he's a very busy man but he'd look and >see if his family had any idea. The second took several weeks to answer >..... HE was researching my question and came up with wonderful clues as YES >they both feel we are probably related to this man who left Stettin Prussia >in 1873! WOW, it's so much fun to find out about who my great Granny was -- >but even more fun finding out and meeting people today! Another 'tip' was >that go on surname sites for the name you're looking for. If you want I'll >send you a link. ON this look for people with your last name who have >relatives in the same area -- say in Jones's in WHATEVER county, >Pennsylvania. I wrote to as many as six or seven people once looking for >people with a certain name in a certain area and got six or seven answers! >From that I got more information than you'd believe complete with copies of >wills from the 1800's! -- Marge (in Arizona) >