Before you even try.... The vote was taken by the subscribers several months ago.... and the vote was very overwhelming NO! (over 2/3) Reasons were given.... 1. Trier was the seat of the Archdiocese of Trier covering much of Luxembourg and southwest part of Rheinland (making up much of today's Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland) and still is! 2. Population is too interwoven. You can't break up the families just like that. (My family is spread over both sides - Brausch, Grenz, Baltes, Schwarz, Everhardy, Dockendorf, etc). 3. Economic ties are much deeper than you realize. 4. Printed History has consisently showed Trier to be part of both side for centuries. 5. Trier had been frequently listed as the place immigrants left for America even through they never lived there because Trier is a city close by enough to the villages they actually left. I found several cousins who thought it was Trier when it turned out to be Taben-Rodt, Hamm, Freudenburg, Mettlach, Merzig, Bitburg, Vianden, Remich, etc through Trier-Roots-L. Believe me I did run separately the list for Luxembourg and Rheinland before Maiser crash and consolidated after the move to Rootsweb for the obvious reasons. Separate and you get very very slow list. Common sense and wisdom dictate that Luxembourg, Saarland & Rheinland portion of Rheinland-Pfalz stay together. W. David Samuelsen, listowner