Great idea..................I am researching the following: Grimm village: Schaeffer/Schafer/Shafer, Dumler, Abig, Denner, Roth Balanda village: Roth, Meisnar/Meisner Saratov village: Roth, Schaeffer.Schafer/Shafer These families immigrated in the early 1900's and lived in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Thank you. My e-mail address is: sluffman@carolina.rr.com