Christine, Was very excited to see your posting. First of all I have had excellent luck with writing to the following address for records. I have obtained death, marriage and baptism records back to the mid 1700s. The cost is $10 per certificate. They are a wealth of information. They will tell parents names, occupations, places of residence and much more. The address is as follows: Nadskofijski Arhiv Ljubljana SLO-1000 Ljulbjana Krekov trg 1 Slovenia I have written in English and never had a problem. E-mail me if you have any more specific questions about this. My next bit of news is that possibly we are working on the same family line. Our earliest ancestor that we know was George Lipoushek. The last name was also spelled Lipovsek. We do still have some relatives living in Slovenia. I have a request in to the archives at this time to try to find out the siblings of our earlier ancestors. Our Lipovsek family also came to Kansas so we should perhaps compare notes to see how we may be linked. I think if you would start out by writing to the archives and requesting a death certificate for Franz and Johanna Bauer that would give you a good start. In the meantime if you'd like to contact me directly we can mull this over and share what we do know. I have tons of Lipoushek, Lipovsek information. This was a very large family. Any other Lipoushek, Lipovseks out there?? Cousins??? Phyllis