Dr. Wack: Not sure you can find this any where outside of Batesville, but there was a small book written, by David S. Dreyer, called _A History of Immigration to the Batesville Vicinity_. He goes into what brought the immigrants to Franklin County and how they were all neighbors back in Germany centuries before immigrating. I think he is a member of the Tri-County Genealogical Society. You might want to check the local library in Franklin County to see if they have a copy. Mr. Dreyer specifically focuses on the immigrants from the Bramsche area, which is where most of the German Catholics and Lutherans came from. There were earlier settlers from England, Southern Germany and PA. Most of the Niedersachen immigrants came after 1837 and the highest percentage came during the potato blight. Someone should speak with Mr. Dreyer about getting his permission to reprint this book on the Franklin County Site. It's a very small book and it would provide valuable information to the site's visitors. My fax is not working and I live in the Persian Gulf, so it would take several weeks for it to arrive, if I mailed it. I'd be more than happy to scan, transfer it into word and post it, if I had Mr. Dreyer's permission, to do so. Hope this helps out. Eppie Litmer http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/i/t/Epathea-D-Litmer/index.html