Data from Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz, concurs with your suggestion the Baldinger surname had origins in AG. In the following villages in canton Aargau, Baldinger had citizenship rights (where you will find their records): Baden Holderbank Lengnau Rekingen Zurzach >From which village were Jacob & Henry originally? Only more research can determine this. You will have to look at the church records in each village above to see if you can find them. http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/kibu/ Unfortunately, very few church records in AG have been microfilmed, so you will either have to make the trip to Switzerland and do the research yourself, or hire someone to do it. As far as living descendants and finding them. I would suggest using the on-line Swiss telephone directory: http://www.whitepages.ch and writing letters to them. Write in both English and the language of the area they live in. Another method would be to contact as many Baldinger in Switzerland using e-mail addresses: http://www.directories.ch/cgi-bin/etv/etv Type the surname in the "Name, Firma oder Rubrik" field. Select "Schweiz" in the "Ort" pull down menu. SwissGen has a wonderful write-up on it: http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/contac-e.htm Best wishes, Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SWITZ] Surname: BALDINGER I am looking for information about Jacob & Henry BALDINGER born in Switzerland in 1824 & 1818, respectively. This is according to the 1860 Census of Crawford County, Ohio. They immigrated to America between 1852 & 1854 from Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. I believe the were born in Canton Aargau of Switzerland. Can anyone help me located documentation, living descendants researching them or living descendants in Switzerland? Thank you. Dorene Baldinger-Morris __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com