On 6/14/98 Ardath Blue wrote: >It was always my belief that Germans were Lutherans also. My German >ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania wereLutheran, and the Germans I >grew up with in the German settlement of Jackson Co., IN were also >Lutheran. However, now that I have moved to south Texas, I have found >that there are German  Catholics also. The religious wars in Germany were especially severe. When things settled down, I think southern Germany was Catholic and northern was Lutheran, but it was probably more complicated than that. --------------------------------------- Robert E. Wilder-Jones <rwilderj@whidbey.net> researching: BARNETT, DAHLUM, GRIFFEE, TIPTON, TONSAKER