Hi Yvonne, Thank you for your help,sorry I didn't get in touch before but my son keeps using the Internet. I looked at the website you mentioned, tried to find a marriage for Johnn and Margarentha Koehne but no luck. Years ago I found somethings on the IGI but nothing that went further back than his generation. I do know that Johnn was a cannoneer in the Franco-Prussian war 1870-71.That came from my dad's cousin who remembers Herman Koehne, his grandfather and the youngest son of Johnn as he lived into his 90s. It did mention micro films but I live in France and I don't know where I would get them and what I would do with them if I did. Regards Kathy