Thank you for your helpful response, Brendon. 118 photocopied pages, wow, I bet you struck genealogy gold with that one! I would love to find court documents, etc. at HADIS, but I have trouble navigating that site, even tho I speak some German. (But then it's a gov't site, and I have trouble navigating gov't sites in the U.S. Nothing like a for-profit organization for easy navigation, huh? :-)) Any tips for me, anyone? Has anyone else had an experience with having someone in Germany look at a specific entry in HADIS' (physical) Emigration Database, based on a find in the online database? (The online database I refer to is the one that comes up when you go to http://www.hadis.hessen.de, enter "Auswanderer-Nachweise" in the Schnellsuche box, click "HStAD :: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" then click "Auswanderer-Nachweise".) Thanks, Sue Jones