>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:29:53 EDT >From: Mml45@aol.com >To: PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <6.618c903.26544d31@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [PFALZ]Balborn, French Republic >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello all...... > >I am looking for the town of Balborn, or might be Belborn, or >Bolborn. >When Barbara Qahm or Rahm was born in 1805 in Balborn that was part >of the French Republic,,, > >I would like to know where Balborn is today... > >I am reading a marriage record from Otterberg, Germany dated 1840 >and Barbara Rahm is to marry Franz Melkus. > >Could any one let me know more about the location of the French >Republic? >I know that this country exhisted from 1793-1805. > >Thank you >Margaret >Maryland USA Try Baalborn. It is very near Otterberg. I don't see any place names like that in France today. France did control part of Germany around that time. Ken McCrea/McCrea Research, Inc. keeper of the Palatines to America 20 Terrace Avenue Homepage: http://palam.org Stevens, PA 17578 USA author of GermanNames shareware: Ken@GermanNames.com http://GermanNames.com (717) 336-5520