Thank you to Margaret, Robert, Al, and Margaret for responding to my post regarding movement out of the Pfalz region. My information is based on family history and census records...history is that the family was in opposition to Napoleon (held some sort of political position); that they lived in Alsace/Lorraine and fled for fear of decapitation (who knows how inflated the story was, may have even been for the earlier generation). Story includes crossing "the river" in a fishing boat, both husband and wife dressed as fishermen, with children in bow (spell?), hidden. Name was supposedly Debassy or something like that. Census records indicate that a son was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1819, his mother being born in Bavaria abt. 1800 and father in Baden abt. 1788. Name was changed to Barth. By 1837 the family was back in Bavaria then left through France to the U.S. Name became Bath. Don't know if we'll ever figure it out but you all have given me wonderful information which I will now use in my searches. Thank you. Bon