--WebTV-Mail-24197-370 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Thanks to all who responded to my posting about Kaiserslautern..I have spent many hours on familysearch, money on death certs, had a researcher in SLC just to find name of Peter Lutz's first wife .$150---- The CD info was so far off.. The NYC Catholic Churches for the most part have closed or merged and have present day immigrants manning the requests for info.. Each requires a donation and then comes back not found...who wants to crawl around these dusty tomes in the basement..<g>. So, though I know they are out there somewhere...I keep trying. I found my Irish ancestors birthplace thru a sort of accidental nasty notation on an English 1871/81 census.... Many thanks again Florence Lutz NJ --WebTV-Mail-24197-370 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.43) by storefull-242.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:20:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id 456351D2; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:20:48 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: smada@webtv.net Received: from lima.epix.net (lima.epix.net [199.224.64.56]) by smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id C54CD1A1 for <smada@webtv.net>; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from epix.net (lwby-85ppp215.epix.net [199.224.85.215]) by lima.epix.net (8.10.1/8.10.1/2000080901/PL) with ESMTP id f0CLEFY10887 for <smada@webtv.net>; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:14:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5F5F2A.5255B3F8@epix.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:50 -0500 From: Art & Kay Harple Staub <akstaub@epix.net> Reply-To: akstaub@epix.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: smada@webtv.net Subject: Kaiserlautern Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Florence, There probably is such a place, but I'm sure the records would still be according to the village. The central place would just be a repository. Have you sent for her naturalization papers. Or if she was a child upon emigrating perhaps you should check for her father's papers. Have you thoroughly checked the church records in this country? Or the federal census. Or perhaps someone or another family that traveled with them. It took me 20 years to find my ancestral village in Germany. Have you put a query on the list? Good hunting, Kay -- Genealogy without documentation is mythology! --WebTV-Mail-24197-370--