Fred H Held wrote: > Bob, > > Arthur Teschler's GEOserv instructions > (http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/resources/geoserv.htm) state that it > accepts wildcards. Therefore, a search using "*dorf" would find all > places that end with "dorf" in Germany. Thanks Fred. I had never seen any instructions on GEOoserv as I have always used the email version. > > Neither GEOserv nor ShtetlSeeker allow subdividing old Germany as part > of the search. ShtetlSeeker does allow choosing your own central search > point, so you can select a city in Hesse as the central point and all > distances will be measured from there. http://rolf-freytag.de/fhilfe/myphp/index.php does allow searching by many subdvisions including Land. bob gillis