This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/3963.1 Message Board Post: Catherine, the town you're looking for is correctly spelled Voltlage. Voltlage is located in what was the district (in German: Kreis) of Bersenbrück and in what is today the district (Kreis) of Osnabrück in the western part of what was until 1866 the Kingdom of Hanover and what then became and remained until 1945 the Prussian province of Hanover, the capital of which was the city of Hanover (in German: Hannover). Following World War II and the break-up of the huge state of Prussia (in German: Preussen; capital: Berlin), the Prussian province of Hanover, the state of Oldenburg, and the two very small states of Brunswick (in German: Braunschweig) and Schaumburg-Lippe combined to form today's German state of Lower Saxony (in German: Niedersachsen), with the city of Hanover as its capital. Voltlage is today a town of about 1800 people and is located about 20 miles northwest of the city of Osnabrück. Robert