This seems like such an obvious idea that I'm surprised no one in my family has thought of it yet -- which makes me suspicious, haha. The surname I'm researching is Hinsberger. I've located them in Enchenberg, Lorraine, and gone back to the early 1700s where there's a brick wall (the earliest ancestor has no parents or birthplace listed in his marriage record, and no one is sure when/where he was born). Looking at his surname and keeping in mind the four different types, Hinsberger would seem to be a geographic surname, and there is a German town near the modern Netherlands border called Heinsberg, a few hundred km north of Enchenberg. Keeping in mind that my earliest Hinsberger was married to a woman from Cologne (which is near Heinsberg), are my assumptions reasonable and should I start looking at Heinsberg records? I see the FHL has some records from the relevant period, but I've struck out with my last several microfilms so I'm hesitating. Thanks, Sarah