........ > If you are looking for church records, they are available for Oberkirch, > SO for 1582-1875 at the LDS. Just follow Dave's mail '[SWITZ] Surname > data and village list in Switzerland'. > When you know the canton, the best place to start is from http://swiss.genealogy.net/ldsloc-m.htm Click on the canton (in the table - language doesn't matter) and you'll get a listing of a communities/parishes in that canton, for which some sort of source has been filmed by LDS. This is what Dave has described - but you may want to bookmark this page ;-). Good luck with your further research - Wolf ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Fax : +49-89-2443-91987 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233