I received a request today, from an historian/writer in Germany. The county of Cochem, on the river Mosel in Germany ANNUALLY publishes a book dealing with the history of the Cochem area. [NEAT IDEA] The main theme for their 2002 book, will be "The migration from Cochem-area to North America in the nineteenth century". The vast majority of those immigrants from Co. Cochem are found in Mt. Calvary, Fond du Lac Co and other parts of "The Holyland" (St. Anna, St. Cloud, St. Nazianz, Marytown, Johnsburg, Jericho, St. Joe, Calvary, St. Peter, and even Elkhart Lake and Kiel and New Holstein) and that is why I was contacted. The author wants to document some of this migration. If your ancestors can be traced to the following 18 townships (part of the Verbandsgemeinde Kaisersesch /county community) all part of the Eifel region of the Rhineland, in Germany: Kaisersesch, Laubach, Leienkaul, Muellenbach, Masburg, Hauroth, Eppenberg, Kalenborn, Urmersbach, Dungenheim, Eulgem, Hambuch, Zettingen, Gamlen, Kaifenheim, Brachtendorf, Illerich, Landkern - we'd like to hear from you.. Here is the first step to take. Be sure to put biography's of your early ancestors on the appropriate county website! They will be used as a resource for this history, if they are from this area. If you have family stories about the early emmigration, let me know. I will tell you how to contact this historian. My hope is that all of you genealogists out there can supply some great family histories. I hope to concentrate on searching for general histories on the life and times of the immigrants of that era in that location. If anyone has an 1880 or 1889 history of Fond du Lac Co, and has time to type up some biographies, give me a jingle. Thanks for any assistance. Tracy