In a message dated 99-09-14 01:27:49 EDT, you write: << < 6 of the 10 have been returned with a box checked off that has the word inconnu next to it. I cannot find that word in my German to English dictionary >> Wouldn't that be the French word for "unknown?" >> I did the same thing about two months ago. I looked on the internet for the Davids and Mayers in Koblenz thinking there might be some remnant family there. I found lots of names and picked 25 likely ones. They haven't all come back, yet, but almost all. Yesterday another one came back and this is two months later. It is very discouraging. I did this same thing in Michigan with other family lines. No letters came back but no responses either. Then, a year and a half later, I got a note from a woman who was the niece in law of one of the people I sent the letter to. She said her relative was very old and when she had last seen her, she had given her the letter and asked her to write. She gave me info on my great grandfathers family who were from Ulverston, England with the names of his father, his brothers and sisters, their children and info that they had all come over here too which I never knew. So, it is good to try. You just never know when one letter will bring the results you want. However, it is discouraging to have so many letters returned. Maybe we need to contact through the internet, someone who lives there, who can look in a telephone book and give us more current info than that which is availaable on the internet. Barb