Dear Barbara: The Walperswiler surname originates from the village of Seedorf in canton BE (Bern) from before 1800. You may register your name and e-mail address as "interested people" along with viewing who else is researching the line at: http://iseli.simplenet.com/ch-names/ which is part of SwissGen http://swiss.genealogy.net Information about SwissGen's Swiss Surname Directory (SSD) is found at either of these addresses: http://swiss.genealogy.net/surnam-m.htm http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/surnam-m.htm Webpages describing the "sources" of Swiss Surname Directory can be found on either of these web addresses (keep trying until one of them works): http://swiss.genealogy.net/sursou-e.htm http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/sursou-e.htm To find out if church parish registers (original handwritten script records) for the village of Seedorf have been microfilmed, start at: http://swiss.genealogy.net/ldsloc-m.htm http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/ldsloc-m.htm and click on the canton. For you, it is BE. Then search the list for the village name and click away. (Seedorf is there, just keep on paging down) If the village is found on the list, then contact your local Family History Center, part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to order the microfilm(s): http://www.familysearch.org/fhlc/Help/Family%20History%20Centers/what_is_a_f amily_history_center.htm (hint - between http and center.htm all has to be on one line in your internet browser) best wishes, Dave Schmutz -----Original Message----- From: blew48 [mailto:blew48@gateway.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:38 AM To: bernhelp@genealogy.net Subject: Benedict Walperswiller My name is Barbara Williams. I am looking for my great-grandfater. I have found on a census that he came from Switzerland. My Benedict was born in May 1827 as far as I know. On the LDS familysearch.org internet connection I have found a Benedict Walperswiller also spelled Walperswyller. The Benedict I found on the internet was born in 1760's a little to wide a spread for them to have been son and father. This is all the concert information I have on my great-grandfather. I have had a hard time finding any other person with his last name. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.