Good day, I decided to post this separately from original Adam/Gloss post. Unfortunately I do not have any Kaiserlautern nor Klingenmunster. I have a few but mine are centered around Altdorf and Duttweiler. My group is quite elusive and I am beginning to suspect they have migrated to the area from elsewhere but I have not been able to ascertain from where. My suspicions is that they are from France. Mine were originally not Catholic but possibly Jewish or Evangelical Reformed. My ancester of greatest curiousity is Johannes Adam born approximately about 1735 if not earlier. He married Maria Catharina Siring (Syring) in Duttweiler 17 October 1765. His marriage record lists his fathers name as Abraham and he is deceased and his mother as Anna. I have not located Abraham's or Anna's death's dates. I have never found JOhannes's death date but I have found his wife's death date in the Geinshiem records in 1819. This is where it gets curious... Of their 5 children, the three boys were baptized in the evangelical reform church in Altdorf but the girls were baptized in the catholic church in Duttweiler. There children are as follows: Johan Jacob (1766) , Maria Elisabetha (1767), Catharina Elisabetha (1769), Johannes (1771), and Anna Margaretta (1778). Johannes married Anna Maria Clara Pflug in Venningen in 1809. I have never been able to locate a death record for him. His wife had her death date written on her birth record in Venningen. Their son Johannes married Maria Johanna Schotthoefer in Otterstadt in 1847 and had six children. Five of the six children emigrated to the United States. They have one son that has proven to be elusive. Martin Adam was born 2 November 1850 in Otterstadt. He married Hedwig Lehr (daughter of Johannes Lehr and Eva Catharina Wellenreuther) in Duttweiler 16 November 1876. Their marriage was also listed in Geinshiem records several days later. Hedwig was born 18 July 1855. From what I can ascertain they had one child, Anna, who was born 19 September 1877 in Bobingen. There is always that remote possibility that he did emigrate later to the United States unbeknownst to the rest of the family. Regards Sarah Adams