someone on 23andme.com remembered the site I was looking for yesterday and sent me the url. it is; http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/schroeder.html [1] if you poke around you'll find around 5 other nations that can be searched, though not all are complete. it looks and works much like the one brought up by the list, but I found it wasn't quite the same-for instance, there was no response to the rather scarce surname Knittle on this site, where it did show up on the other one, so it's good to use both sites. for those who missed the other site's url posting; http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ [2] enjoy. Cornelia Links: ------ [1] http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/schroeder.html [2] http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/