Thanks John for you information. I wasn't sure what I was looking at, but I do recall I saw some mixed marriages for either the Blankenbaker or Thoma families It's been a while, but one of the ladies on the Tour had the book. She was asking me what some of the abbreviations and words meant. Mixed marriages among the Reformed, Lutheran, and Catholics did occur then just as now. The more I study these Kraichgau villages, the more I find that these folks were somewhat different from what we have been led to believe by history books. John Blankenbaker wrote: > The Ortssippenbuch which is referred to below is properly called the Oberoewisheim-Neuenbuerg