> Has anyone found any of the French records relating to this > area? When I > asked at the Family History Library I was told it would all > be located under > Hesse. I realize that it where they index all those records, > even though > the area is now Rheinland- Pfalz. But surely the French > didn't leave all > the records in Germany? Actually, the civil records from this time period can still be found in some places. At least I found civil records, written in French, from 1808, specifically, in the city government or country government offices in Bad Durkheim. This is south of the region you are describing, but subject to the same history you described. The records that they have there are civil records for marriage and birth and deaths for the surrounding towns, including Ebenburg, Feilbingert and Altenbamberg. (Bad Durkheim is just south of Bad Kreuznach.) I'll be writing up a report about the research I did in the Rheinpfalz region and posting it to this list in the near future. -- Jillaine Smith, Washington DC http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine