[email protected] writes: > In our region a lot of records have been destroyed during the > Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648). Not to mention centuries of miscellaneous wars between the individual European countries, then the modern wars WWI and WWII. So many European churches and municipal buildings that held records were totally destroyed. Perhaps genealogists and historians should be appointed the Leaders of countries around the world? They would be more interested in preservation and restoration...and far less likely to declare any future destructive wars. Audrey Peters