Here is the URL to check to see what is avaliable at the above http://www.ekkw.de/archiv The E-Mail address if you know what you are looking for you can write and ask what it would cost to send it. archiv@ekkw.de In the things that I read while I was there the charge to look I believe was $15.00 per half hour and that is also a minimum. There is a charge for photocopy and mail. Be aware, that there is a difference in exchange rate for US currency and that of Europe. The use the Euro. While I was there, the exhange rate varies from $67.50 to $72.50 in Euro per $100.00 of US Currency. A credit card is probably better because of the exchange rate changes every day. Never take Cashiers checks. The bank charges $17.50 to cash them whether or not is $50. american dollars or $1,000.00 american dollars also then applies the difference in the exchange. For $800.00 in american Express Travlers checks, I received $607.00 in Euro dollars. I lost almost $200.00 and you have to be prepared for that. Most countries England, France, Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany use the same Euro so it works all over. Other countries have not been put on the Euro yet, Like Poland and the Check Republic, and Romania, to name a few. their exchange rates different. It will take another coupe of years until that happens. When I told about the trip, I have been doing genealogy since 1987 and actually prior to that but that is when I stopped working and gave it more time. Prior to my going to Germany, in 1990, I found that my gr gr grandfather was a Hessian Soldier while researching in person in Pennsylvania. Anther cousin, did a home edition of a book, and showed the incorrect ancestor, and I spent a week in PA/, trying to get information on him. then I discovered the correct when I went to Philadelphia, and the church in the other town told me the child died at about age 2. Then in 2001, a friend went to Germany that carries the same surname, and did part of my research back to about 1730's, and sent it to me. That is when I knew I wanted to go over and do my own, and see the country. I have friends that have been there and they told me that they would love to live there it is the most beautiful country in the world. I Agree. I would dlove to live there. I am now looking for inexpensive flights so I can go back and just travel around by train and see more of the country. I did not state all of the facts when I wrote the first message, but a cousin meet me at the airport the sam AM that I arrived and traveled with me and also working on the records,and double checking what I already had. I already had a photo of his christening record, which showed his father and mother and then some of his brothers and sisters and the parents marriage records, So, it is not to just walk in and say I want to see this. The records are not easy to read, and copies of the microfiche can get expensive if you have say 25 of them. it could cost up to $70.00 plus a fee for each day and person that is in there to do research. Some of you might want to contact Don Watson at dwats@cox.net He use to have a wonderful website, and he has helped me since 1997, to work on my research. He knows more about Germany that I every will. I stil feel free to write and ask him about things now. Betty