Hello List, I have been following with interest, the comments/references to the prominent family names, particularly from the Graubunden area. I am researching a "de Planta" line, which supposedly came from Chur. Have now been waiting almost 5 weeks for the LDS films which still have not arrived, & began to look at derivations of de Planta, particularly von Planta, which seems to me to be logical. I would like to raise a couple of points: 1) Would there be any logical explanation for a von Planta from Chur to change his name to de Planta. My de Planta was born in Chur around 1826 & moved to Brittany in France to train as a Priest in the Protestant Church. He subsequently married a French speaking Swiss girl from Geneva and settled in Lucens in the canton de Vaud, after having apparently spent another spell in Brittany as a Priest. Both he & his wife are dead by the mid 1880s, having had about 12 children, of which the first 6/7 died. 2) Is there any other logical way to trace this de Planta, through Church records ( supposedly being a Priest), apart from the LDS microfilms. 3) Going through the Ancestral files via Familyseach.org I came across two von Planta females, Judith & Magdalena, both allegedly born 1693 and both allegedly married to the same Eustach Albert von Salis. Can anyone offer any assistance or comments?? Many thanks Nick Beaton. Las Palmas, Spain.