I'm perplexed. A distant cousin has traced our Kleindienst line to the Auenstein/Crailsheim/Maulach area near Stuttgart in Baden-Wurttemberg. The immigrant was David Kleindienst, whose earliest ancestor was Balthasar Kleindienst, born in Maulach in 1524. David hit America in either 1749 (U.S. sources) or 1752 (German sources). What perplexes me is that there also were Kleindiensts in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Bad Kreuznach area. That is where many other immigrants to York County, Pa., originated, and could be the home of another David Kleindienst, whom we have been unable to document. Are there any people with knowledge of Kleindienst ancestry, or with knowledge of any relationship between the Bad Kreuznach area and Stuttgart area in Germany in the mid-1700s? There is scant evidence to connect David of Auenstein to the David who arrived in 1749. I'm looking for a firm connection of my David to somewhere or someone in Germany. Many thanks, Phil Klinedinst klinedinst@juno.com