Re: Calenberg and the noble, royal genealogy _http://www.koenigreich-hannover.de/ _ (http://www.koenigreich-hannover.de/ ) For those interested, study info. in this link, there is a Welfen genealogy, I believe available in English. AMT was an administrative location, a village in charge of surrounding villages and farms. Tax collectors for the Nobles to whom they had to pay per, farmland, harvest and live stock. All farmers in the villages had to turn over certain amounts of harvest, and services to the noble Lord. Sounds like share croppers to me in English. This system was 1200 through 1700s, more or less. Their land belonged to the Lords. They also had to pay monetary head taxes, (Kopfsteuer) I have a book of Tax Roll records (Kopfsteuer) for the region of Calenberg-Göttingen, Calenberg-Grubenhagen, from 1689. It is as good as a census, lists all houses, hearths, heads of household, and family members by age, some occupations. If you know the village your ancestors came from, I can do look ups for a name you have. Rita: I'll get back to you on the Broeker name, have to go back into my family tree. Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there. Regards, Ingrid