Dear Betty, I guess posting your query again means no one at HARKEY has found a connection with HARTKE. A couple of days ago, while surfing on the Internet, I came across two references to men named HERCHE. One is a visiting economics prof in California, the other has a home page that is all about Little League somewhere in Maryland. I wrote to both of them. We do get desperate! Do you read and write German? Mary Russell, the list coordinator, is looking for someone willing to make written queries to records places in Germany. Alma