Re: DICKHAUT Johann; HD,HES,DEU>NY,USA; 1855 >This is my first posting so am including detail. Have 2 specific >questions. Records show use of both Altheim and Spitzaltheim, Hessen >Darmstadt. Are these in fact two separate towns? I think, Altheim and Spitzaltheim are two separate towns. Look for them in the German search engine www.fireball.de If you find a German URL of these towns, then have it translated by the www.altavista.com search engine. By the way, dick = thick and haut = skin Josef Fercher -- Reply bitte nicht per eMail,sondern als Follow-Up in dieser Newsgroup. Danke :-) J.Fercher@t-online.de (Josef Fercher)