I am descended from George Lentz who came from Alsace-Lorraine. >From: "Jim Duggan" <messers@attbi.com> >To: PALATINES-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Palatines] Index of Surname Occurrence >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:22:54 -0800 > >I am new to this facility, so my question may have been asked before. I am >researching where my ancestors came from, and understand it was this >section >of Germany. Is there an index of surname occurrences for this region? For >example: Where (in what cities or other political subdivision) in the >Palatinate would I likely find the surnames LENTZ (maybe LENZ) and FLORA? > >Is there a map of the section of Germany called the Palatinate? I realize >the description is "along the Rhine river, in the States of Rhineland >Westfallen, and portions of Alsace Lorraine". That is not altogether >clear. >Are the cities of Koeln, Wuppertal, Saarbruecken, Trier, Aachen, Heidelberg >or the Black Forest included? I hope you get my point. > >Thanks for help. > >Jim Duggan >genealogy@jimduggan.com > > > >==== PALATINES Mailing List ==== >If you must use a signature line with surnames, use >S*M*I*T*H, S.M.I.T.H. or S M I T H > >Anything else confuses the search engines in the archives > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > Gene Stackhouse "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened." _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com