Excellent! Sometimes google and/or wiki stare us in the face! The amazing amount of information now "out there" on the internet is going to replace my Hessen website before too much longer. :-) Don Watson Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 01:03:14 +0000 From: M BARON <mbaron2@sympatico.ca> >From Wikipedia--a history of Alsace-Lorraine The Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsa?-Lothringen, generally Elsass-Lothringen)