Last year I posted a short history of the Pfalz that I cobbled together out of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several German book, and it's up on my WorldConnect tree at: <A HREF="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=saintware" >RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Winstels of Hayna, Bavaria (Pfalz)</A> I was wondering if anyone has addresses for some other Pfalz histories, as I recall there be some other, much better ones out there, but I have lost the URLs Thanks. PS I think Manfred's suggestions for the mystery abbreviations are probably correct (to add my German Pfennigs to his Aussie cents): <