Robbie ; you don;t say where in Switzerland your KUHN ancestors came from. I will try to give you all the sites befdore 1800 from Swiss Surnames. Canton Aargau - Birmensteorf AG - (a) from before 1800 Bu(e)nzen (a Dottikon (a) Laufenburg (a) Ma(e)genwil (a) Oberkulm (a) Schlossrued (a) Suhr (a) Waltenschwil (a) Wohlen (AG (a) Canton Bern - Bru(e)ttelen (a) Frauenkappelen (a) Mu(e)singen (a) Orpund (a) CAnton Geneve - Geneve - (a) (b) from 1800 to about 1850 Canton Jura - Porrentruy )(a) Canton St Gallen - Dagersheim (a) Jonschwil (a) Kappel (Toggenburg) (a) Krummenau (a) Lu(e)tisburg (a) Mogelsberg (a) Mosnang (a) Nesslau (a) Oberuzwil (a) Rheineck (a) Thal (a) Wildhaus (a) Canton Solothurn - Dornach (a) Kestenholz (a) Scho(e)nwerd (a) CAnton Thurgau - Birwinken (a) Gu(e)ndelhart-Horhausen (a) Heldswil (a) Langrickenbach (a) Canton Valais - Massongex ;(a) Canton Zurich - Dielsdorf (a) Dietikon - (b) from Illnau ZH Dietlikon (a) Embrach (a) Illnau 9a) Lindau (a) Neftenbach (a) Nurensdorf (a) - from Embrach,Zu Pfa(e)ffikon (a) Uster (a) Volketswil (a) Wallisellen (a) Winterthur (b) from 1800 to about 1850 Zell (a) In Mario van Moos -Bibliography of Swiss Genealogies is the following entry" Pryor,Gwendolin: The Swiss Connection - Hans Caspar KUHN 91713-17920 von Zurich /Schwamendingen, Dietlikon/Rieden) of South Carolina and his descendants with related families of Kinsler, Nettles and Wyrick. Baltimore,1991 463 p. genealogies (in der SGFF-Bibliothek). I muste assume that since you give his birthdate this is the man you are searching for. If so you can check with the Family History Center and check the Microfilm records for Dietlikon, Canton Zurich which I am sure have been filmed. Hope this will be of help to you in your search. On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:41:00 EST Duroblan@aol.com writes: > Hello, > I am new to the list. > Looking for Hans Casper Kuhn 1713 and family. > My gggggrand father was John Lewis Coon (Kuhn) b.1757 married Mary > Fannon. > by Margaret Coon b. Apr. 30,1792 married Austin Coates b. 1788 > > Hope to find some cousins > Robbie Landry > > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Swiss Resource Site > http://swiss.genealogy.net >