Mary Beth Thanks for the great site for finding towns. The old variant names are really useful for this type of thing. Grosswangen sounds like a possibility to me too. This list has been great in helping with locating the European location of my ancestors. Janet > Hi Janet, > > I have only recently signed on to this list and have only been reading, so > far. When I saw your email I thought I would use the JewishGen StetlSeeker > to look up the town of Gross Banken and found a whole list that it picked > out. I first thought that Gross Behnkenhagen might be a possibility. Then > further down the list I saw Grosswangen, a little closer sounding to Gross > Banken. You may want to go to this site to check for yourself. It has > helped me in the past with a town that no longer exists. Just go to: > http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker I hope this helps. > > Mary Beth Arthur > Volunteer with Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild