Hi Listers, I am researching THOMSER family which was Roman Catholic and which migrated from western Germany around 1848-50. A member of the family is in Baltimore, MD in the 1850 census. On the IGI, there is a Catholic person with that surname born in Birkenhoerdt, Pfalz, Bayern. When I checked a map site online, I got the message that the place did not exist. Does anyone have any knowledge of where this town is(was)? Jackie Reiss