Hi Gloria, been a long time since we heard from each. When I read "Grimwald" it reminded me with the name Greifswald, a city at the baltic sea in Pommern. Perhaps can you put a scan online? Maybe one of this list can help to decipher it. Joachim Am 10.06.2004 03:42:19, schrieb "Gloria Mattingley" <gloriafay@optusnet.com.au>: >Could someone please tell me if there is a place called "Grimwald", "Grumwald", Pommern in Prussia? I am reading this off a birth certificate which was registered in 1884, and the letters are very smudged. > >Thanks, > >Gloria. > -- Joachim Lietz +++ Hollwisch 10 +++ D - 24148 Kiel Motto: nihil sine ratio est