In a message dated 09/09/2000 JuliaL1957@aol.com writes: Dear Julia, I noticed your Faust surname, as I am intersted in that name, because I have Catherreny, George and Johan Philip Faust born in 1690s Rheinland Pfalz. My Surnames: Harless, Preisch (Price), Faust, Loy, Moser, Hoffman, Volger Henrich Harless b. 1655 Muhlofen and lived in Billengheim - Lutheran Johan Heinrich Preisch b. 1660 in Offenbach - Catholic Henrich Hoffman - b. 1660 Offenbach - Catholic John Wilhelm Volger - born in Muhlhofen - town merged with Billengheim Loy family - Baden and Heidelburg area. John Philip Faust - b. 1600s I visited all of the above towns in May 2000. I took a boat ride down the Rhine to see the Castles - that they saw as they left Rheinland Pfalz to go to America in 1738. Would like to know if there have been any books written about any of my family and the History of the area in which they lived in the 1600s. I admired the grape vineyards. Be interesting to know what the primary crops were in 1730. How many worked in mills, etc. Regards, Georgia Hornbuckle Dallas, TX 9-10-00