Since this is a topic of seemingly continuing interest to many of us who have “real or family lore” ancestors from the region, I offer this site, which is ok’d by my Norton security package, (and there are lots more if you google) for your investigation. It is an area which produces most of the German white wines which I enjoy. But then I do have both those French and German (the most ancestry) genes (none from Alsace Lorraine per se) which I think account for my wine tastes. Though I don’t like beer ... but that’s a topic for an entirely different thread on another day! http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Alsace