Several of my ancestors (Bigler, Birckle and others) went from the area of Bern Switzerland to the areas around Stuttgart Germany and Wissembourg France sometime between 1608 and 1668. While researching in Germany a number of years ago, a cousin of mine was told there is a book in which a record was kept of the toll fee paid by all people traveling on the river from Switzerland to live in what is now Germany. It was said to cover the period from 1556 to 1750 when there were large migrations from Switzerland. Does anyone know of such a book? Can anyone tell me if there were such fees? Who would have collected them? Would they be paid to each entity they passed through on the journey, or maybe only to Switzerland? What entities were in control of shipping on the Rhine during that time period? Where would such records have been kept, and where might they be now? Thanks for any help or information anyone can give me! N. H. Goodman