Hi, I subscribe to Ancestry.com and received the following information from their daily Email Ancestry Daily News, 07 October 1999. The ability to search the Wuerttemberg Index by location & name has been amazingly useful to me. As far as I'm concerned, this is the purpose for which computers were invented! Go for it! 7 volumns in a single swipe. Just like the little shoemaker. You can do searches that just aren't practical with books. Use these databases for free for 1 week only. (address at the bottom of this email) I use the unformatted search to do a simple using the surname and location or the city and year of application. to see which families may have traveled together. If you get a result from your search, Search for combinations that interest you. Destination spelling varies and may be pretty unreliable. Try searches of a few combinations to be sure you have it ALL. In other words: If you search for Stoll and 1847 (from an old census record) you'll find the german city of Maisenbach, Neuenbuerg. Search next on Neuenbuerg & 1847. This may even give you surname spellings you didn't know about. If the list, for your family is too long, try Mar 1847 then go back a month and try Feb. You'll get some birth dates but you'll also get Application dates and additional names that may match. Have some fun with it. I hope I explained this well enough. If not. a plain vanilla surname search is just fine, too. Remember to do ton's of spelling variations for german names or give it up and search by date and first name. For example: Margaret may be Margaretha. Jacob may be Jakob. Penny (Richner) Husler ============================================================ GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ October 6th has been designated as "German American Day" in the United States, and from the middle of September to the middle of October we celebrate German American Heritage Month. In recognition of the many German Americans who settled in North America and have helped to shape this country, Ancestry.com is providing the following databases free between October 6th and October 13th. ~ Finding Your German Ancestors ~ Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, all 7 vols ~Pennsylvania German Pioneers ~ Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance ~ Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance, Vol. 2 ~ Early Germans of New Jersey ~ New Jersey German Reformed Church Records, 1763-1802 ~ Steinfeld, Germany, Deaths, 1683-1793 ~ Steinfeld, Germany, Baptism Records, 1769-1788 ~ Steinfeld, Germany, Baptism Records, 1824-1849 ~ Kapsweyer, Germany Church Records, 1693-1920 ~ Kapsweyer, Germany Baptism Records, 1879-1902 To search these databases, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/german.htm