Dear Jennie: You need to visit SwissGen's "Swiss Surname Directory (SSD)," which provides both information about the surnames you are researching, but also 'registers your interest' for others to contact you and you can also see click on their names to send an e-mail to them. Start at http://swiss.genealogy.net/surnam-m.htm for an overview of SSD is, then follow the QUERY PAGE link to http://iseli.simplenet.com/ch-names/ to obtain the data on your surnames. If data is already available in the database, then it is e-mailed to you immediately. Please be careful entering your e-mail address, or you will never receive the data. ;-( Otherwise, one of the SSD volunteers will look-up the info for you and send it your way. best wishes in your research, Dave Schmutz SSD admin. p.s. Sound as if you have not yet visited SwissGen - a wonderful resource for Swiss genealogical researchers http://swiss.genealogy.net -----Original Message----- From: jen@cmh.net [mailto:jen@cmh.net] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:35 PM To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SWITZ] GAUTSCHI/KARCHER Hi Everyone, I am very interested in finding anyone who has these surnames and/or has information on them. The Gautschi surname is from Reinach. The Karcher surname is from Ofwilen, Elsas Thank you, Jennie ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== Going on vacation? Gone longer than 4 days? mail to Switzerland-L-request@rootsweb.com subject line: unsubscribe nothing in message Do not add anything else but the one word.... unsubscribe