On June 13, 1999, Peggy Kolm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Bavaria can be a confusing term. One of my Monroe County > families that > arrived about 1860 - Daniel and Catherine (Jaeger) Krauss > and children - > are listed as coming from Bavaria. They are from towns near > Becherbach, > which is currently part of the province of Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany > (nowhere near today's Bavaria). It turns out that in the > mid-19th century, > the Kingdom of Bavaria extended that far north! > > <snip> Hi, Peggy, Yes, that part of Germany belonged to Bavaria until the middle of the 19th century -- it was called the Palatinate, or the Pfalz, or the Bavarian Palatinate, or Bavarian Pfalz. However, for various reasons, I am narrowing the search for my LANG-SCHEUERING ancestors to present-day Bavaria. Thanks for sending the info about the LANG families in your data base. I have no connections with those persons, but I will file your message. Daniel Daniel J. Kortenkamp, Ph.D. [email protected] Dept. of Psychology University of Wisconsin fax: 715 346-2778 Stevens Point, WI 54481 http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/psych/dk/danielpg.htm