In a message dated 8/1/2000 6:03:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PFALZ-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: >>Hi all I'm trying to track my great grandparents families. The surnames are Thinnes and Leidgen. I'm virtually certain that the Leidgen's are from Losheim but no living relatives have enough information to give other than "grandma Leidgen was from Losheim". If anyone has any information on these families from around the mid to late 1800's it would be very helpful.<< Dave and Maryanne; I have a Thimmes Family in my ancestral line, also from the Pfalz, but from quite a bit south of Trier. Jacob Thinnes married Anna Maria Bubel in the Pfalz, location and dates unknown. They had a daughter, Anna Maria Thinnes, born aby 1844 in Bliesmengen She died 20 April 1944 in Reinheim, Pfalz, Germany. She married George Zahm, pprobably in Bliesmengen. Jacob and Maria Bubel had another child, Peter Thinnes. He married Anna Maria Kallenbrunnen on 30 Jun 1877 in Reinheim. Anna Maria was born 18 Aug 1854 in Reinheim. I have no birthdate for Peter. This is not much, but perhaps it helps. I certainly hope so. Vincent Falter