Dear Don Ebbeler and the lists and all: Don, thanks for your reply. I had assumed my Eiting's came from the larger Bocholt just inside Westfalen, but based on your info, it is time for me to rethink this! IF they emigrated from the larger Bocholt in the 1840 to 1850 timeframe, would they likely have shown up in Westfälishe Auswanderer, or were many actual emigrants not listed there? I could not find the smaller Bocholt on "my" road map of modern Germany, but I did find nearby Nettetal, and it is near to Straelen and Kempen, from which the families that my Eitings married came ... so the plot thickens. Does anyone know if this smaller Bocholt (near Nettetal), has a St. George Catholic Church? Does the larger Bocholt have one? "Our" St. Georg Catholic Church had a Father Schmitt as pastor in 1974, if that's of any help to anyone in distinguishing. Which direction and distance is the smaller Bocholt from Nettetal? Thanks for any help, :) Andy Wegner, Winneconne, Wisconsin, USA ebbeler@ix.netcom.com wrote (in reply to a message originally posted on westfalen-l list): Hello Andy, There are 2 Bocholts, both in the modern state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. For your time period the large one was in Westfalen and the book Westfälishe Auswanderer is a list covering that Bocholt up to 1850, but there are no Eiting emigrants listed. The much smaller Bocholt [a Bauerngut near Nettetal, 335 residents today] was part of Rheinprovinz for your time period and would not be covered by the Westfalen emigration books. There is also a Bochold which is part of Essen today, also not covered by these books. Don Ebbeler