Hi Joan, You should first determine from what localities WECHTER/WACHTER held citizenship in Switzerland from either a check of the "Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz" or by submitting a request at: http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/surnam-m.htm on QUERY PAGE. Offhand, I would suspect that your "Laugerville" is actually Lauperswil in the Signau district of Canton Bern. If you find that WECHTER/WACHTER held citizenship at Lauperswil, the church records from there have been microfilmed, and can be ordered through a Family History Center, if you have access to one. It should be possible to trace the ancestry of your family back through those records. I also recognize LIECHTI as a name occurring in the Signau area, and you can determine exactly which communites as above. NUSSBAUM(ER) I believe is a fairly common name to many areas in Switzerland, and also occurs in the Signau area. I not sure GYGER occurs in the Signau area, but you can determine that as above. I do know that it occurs a little west of there in the area south of Bern. It is likely that all of these families were from the same general area. If you start with your last known Swiss ancestor, and work back through the church records, they will usually identify the location of the earlier generations, either in the marriage/baptismal records, or in circumstantial evidence in noting where the sponsors at baptism were from. The church records for most Canton Bern communities are available on microfilm, that you can search most other locations learned also. Rick Saunders http://pweb.netcom.com/~fzsaund/0.html