Thanks to all for their advice and assistance. What a wonderful group! Another question: Does anyone know of an Internet site that has pictures of the areas of Rederstall and/or Tellingstedt? My 83-year-old aunt has heard so many wonderful stories about her great-grandmother Maria and her farm in Rederstall (she's buried in Tellingstedt) that she gets a "homesick" feeling whenever we discuss our German roots -- they run deep. Best regards, Martha Bohlinger-Lakin