----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On 25 Feb 1994, Suzanne Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A faculty member here at Colorado State is trying to locate Veldes Town, > Krain County which existed in 1842 in the area of Slovenia/Czechoslovakia. > We do not have any historical maps here that give that information. Can > anybody help locate this town by lat/lon or whatever? Thanks very much. Suzanne, Krain (English: "Carinthia") is a province in the south of Austria, bordering on Slovenia; its capital is Klagenfurt. The place your faculty member seeks is probably VELDEN, a city on the western end of the W"orther [Woerther] See, approximately half way between Klagenfurt and Villach. Michael Palmer, quondam Research Director German Genealogical Society of America