Hello, Thank you so much for your response and this infomation. I had seen the Dhaun name and wondered if I was looking in the wrong area. I'll see if I can locate the Hacker source. I deeply appreciate your help. Jennifer Clark In a message dated 9/26/2006 5:54:45 A.M. Central Daylight Time, werner_lichter@yahoo.de writes: Hi, the county of Daun you mentioned is not the Kreis Daun in northern Rhineland-Palantinate. This area belonged to the archibishopric of Trier and was in those time 100% of all inhabitans roman catholic. There is another Daun, called Dhaun south in the Palatinate region of our county. The name is actually "Hochstetten-Dhaun" ! In the book "Die Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saar", edited by Werner HACKER: "Werner Hacker, Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Jahrhundert, Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0487-X". This book contains about 10.000 names of emigrants from that area and a lot of informations about the area of Dhaun. Werner LICHTER