Janet, Thanks so much for your ideas. I will be following up as soon as I can and will let the group know what I find. Linda Linda, have you tried to find these people on Family Search?  Or have you tried Rootsweb's Global Connect to see if anyone else is researching those names and has posted info on them? http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi.  Or how about Mocavo? http://www.mocavo.com/. If you've tried those without success you could try again the old fashioned way by writing letters to the Hannover evangelical churches.  You can Google that for a list of them.  I did that with some of my ancestors in Hamburg and the Dresden area.  Hamburg no longer lets the churches do that - all the church books are at the main archives and you either have to go there yourself or hire a researcher and Hamburg records have not been filmed by Family Search.  I don't know what the situation is with Hannover but it could be worth a try.  You do have to write in German.  Some can read English so I use both languages in my letters.  Also some churches have email addresses and I have also written emails and received responses. Another thing I did was write letters (in German and English) to all the people with the last name that I was researching that I could find in the German phonebook online in the city my ancestor came from and actually found my last remaining relative from that line. You might try writing to a Hannover mail list and ask if anyone know of a reliable researcher if you end up needing to go that way. Hope something here will help, Janet