This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZJBAEB/201.1 Message Board Post: My Stephan's came from a village in France called Roppeviller. It is about a mile inside the French border. It's in an Area called Lorraine, that area kept changing hands between Germany and France depending on which country won the war. I have traced them back to the late 1690's in a village called Eppenbrunn in Germany . I have seen the named spelled Stephan,steven,steffan,steffin.I have a book with the vital records of each village. Eppenbrunn from 1697 to 1807 and Roppeviller from 1692 to 1902.