After I did a www.google.com search: Riedseltz + France The link is at the bottom of the first page of urls. It had a handwritten birth certificate and it had surnames in it. N° 16 - Birth certificate - or Acte In year thousand eight hundred and six first hornung (sic!) in the morning at seven o'clock erschi(e)n before me Frantz Antoni MERRILY Maire Civille civil servant of the municipality Riedseltz, CAN clay/tone Weÿsenbouerg, in the down Nieder-Rheini section, which Burger Andreas Haurÿ, Vatter old forty year, a Glasser declarirte resident in Riedseltz which us that it these and the Vorzeuge made, a Kindel weibliechen sex and that it this tomorrow uem dreÿ Uehr Steinbach(in) born into the world produced by its wife Catharina resident in Riedseltz and which he made give to want explained Elisabetha Hauerÿ, mentioned Declaration uend before generation made in gegenwarth Johanes B[... ] old thirty six year a Schmitt wonhaft in Riedseltz first to witness, and Elisabetha Kolb(in) old thirty old year wonhaft in Riedseltz more zweueter and have Vatter witness and gezeugen to present birth certificate after geshehend lecture with us to put underneath The translator didn't do such a good job. Could someone translate it better? Zona