SARAH ADAMS wrote: > > A distant relation sent me a lovely email this afternoon connecting > some of the relations that remained in Germany with my information in > the US. However, here is my question, I am wondering what the dates > are relating to what Kreis Otterstadt and Waldsee were in. She has > Kreis Schifferstadt and I have always been under the impression that > it was in Kreis Ludwigshafen. Geo@genealogy.net says that both Otterstadt and Waldsee are in Kaiserlauten County/Kreis and both are in Verbandsgemeinde Waldsee. the geo data base is as of about 1996. This Kreis was renamed Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in 2004. A Wikipedia article on The Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis says: The Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) the district-free city Worms, the district Bergstraße, district-free Mannheim, Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen, Rhein-Neckar, district-free Speyer, the districts Karlsruhe, Germersheim, Südliche Weinstraße and Bad Dürkheim. The district was created in 1886 under the name Bezirksamt Ludwigshafen, one of the last acts of king Ludwig II of Bavaria. The population in the area around Speyer had grown significantly, which made the splitting of the Bezirksamt Speyer necessary. 1969 the two districts Speyer and Ludwigshafen and part of the districts Frankenthal and Neustadt were merged again to form the new district Ludwigshafen. On May 19, 2003 the district parliament did pass a resolution to rename the district to "Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis" starting in 2004. So Depending on the time of the event, Speyer or Luwigshafen could have been the Kreis where these two villages were. There does not appear to have ever been a Schifferstadt Kreis > Then I have another relation that states Speyer is the correct one. > Is there a historical timeframe that make all three locations > correct? Not as far as I can see. bob gillis