At 01:00 AM 10/6/2006, you wrote: >I have a copy of the Nunschweiler Church book from I think its 1728 to 1733. >My people were in the area and I have one marriage from the book. Could >there be more detailed information in Speyer? Have you tried looking further at the microfilmed Church Records from Nunschweiler? They appear to go back into the 1500s. If your family was there, you should be able to gather a lot of information from those. I've successfully traced a number of my German ancestry back to the 15 and 1600s using the microfilmed records at my local Family History Center. The only time I wrote to Speyer was when one of the books I was looking at was filmed with the binding partially closed so part of the entry wasn't visible. I wrote to Speyer for 3 pages and got those in a couple of months. They were fairly expensive as I recall and that was even with me providing the exact dates. They were the exact pages I had looked at but with the page fully opened so I could see all the writing. Pam http://www.pamsgenealogy.net