Dear Hanne Thorup Koudal, Thank you for your reply; however, I am very confident (solidly documented) regarding the URBANS and for the most part it is not their whereabouts that I seek. Having said that I am, however, at a dead end (hopefully temporarily) at events that precede 1707 for my URBAN family. This particular Joh. Nicklaus URBAN was born in 1740 in Ungstein, Rhein-Pfalz. I have this birth record and his son's birth record in Ungstein, as well. It is this Joh. Nicklaus URBAN's marriage to Anna "Juliana BOEHM from Freinsheim" that alludes me. Juliana BOEHM's name & the Freinsheim location is given in their son's birth record. I hope this is a clearer presentation, on my part, of my search efforts. Bette > Dear Bette > > Because I have worked a lot with huguenot and walloon names, I suspect the > husbands name in stead of Johann Nicklas URBAN could be originaly in > french Jean Nicolas URBAIN. > He could be from Hainaut area in now southern Belgium or France.