Werner Lichter wrote: > the town of Borg is located near Perl, as this is correct Kathy wrote. > But the political situation is not correct. > Perl is the head of the community Borg belongs to. Of course, that's true today, as the web page that I referred beeves to clearly states. <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_(Saarland)> However, I thought beeves was more interested in what things were like when his ancestors lived there, so I tried to explain to him why the reference to "TRIER/BORG/PERL/SAARBURG" conflates different political jurisdictions from different time periods. Kathy