Helen wrote: > I understand that my Schilling and Gotto relatives emigrated to the > U.S. from Trier, Prussia, Germany in the 1850's or 60's. I do not > know which city they called home, but my great grandmother evidently > spoke often of the Black Forest. The Black Forest is in Baden, not in the Trier area. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_forest Are you sure she didn't talk of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald, a chain of hills south of Trier? See: http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/geo-reg.html#schwarzwaelderhochwald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunsr%C3%BCck http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/hochwald/index.php?lang=en kql