Chucker: Further to Loveitaly`s wonderful advice on Google. Right above that Search box you will see the words Web...Images...Groups...etc. Click on Images and then enter your village names. Any pictures that Google has viewed regarding these areas will appear and each one will have a separate website which might have some info for you. Voila. Google is great!

Boy, you guys are good!! You have made me extremely proud of participating on this forum.

Chucker-- have the best time! Please keep posting!

This is Chuck again, maybe for the last time, as I've already tried to express my great appreciation to everyone who has been kind enough to respond. But I'd also like to express a special thank you to "goldwynn," who has turned me onto a special way of getting the information I'm looking for. I've tried it, and for a beginner like me, it's fantastic. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Now,...I'm going to go hunting for more info for my trip using your suggestion.
Chuck

Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for one day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all weekend.

goldwynn,
Thankyou for the tip on google's images.
We are using Untours for a two week trip to Switzerland next year. We had narrowed our choices to staying in Kandersteg, Sachseln, Lungern, or Hohfluh. Having just gone to Google images and viewing photos, we were able to narrow it further to either Lungern or Kandersteg. Many, many thanks.

Rufus, LOL. Do you think Chuck's wife will eventually be naming us all as correspondents in a divorce proceeding?

Chuck, if you're still there, ain't no way to stop a thread once you've started it. But you don't have to feel "responsible" for it either.

Thank YOU for sharing your sense of wonder at this resource with all of us who are perhaps a bit jaded by now. I remember feeling exactly the same way when I first came on this forum. In fact, I remember reading the (very long) thread on where people were born and where they were now, and getting tears in my eyes because it was just so incredible to me that there was this huge international community of people all connecting. Wow!

I don't know if you have already done this, but a lot of veterans of military units have created web sites with a unit history.

I haven't used it, but this URL links to some of them, I believe. Others can be located with an internet search using the unit name on some site like google. With the unit history, you could confirm what you have, and very likely supplement it.

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_history...histories.php3

I used to have to research military service, and it always took months or years to get incomplete information from the DOD. The internet has really simplified the task.

Marilyn--I think once you get up there in marriage years, wives aren't always unhappy when loverboy goes off fishing for the weekend.

This is Chuck, hopefully for the last time, migod, how long do these things just keep on going? I know someone said that I don't have to "feel responsible," but I do, every time I see another posting, asking me if I've tried this or that. I'm so appreciative that for each response that I feel I have to once again respond with another thank you.
To Marilyn,no, there will be no divorce. I have the most beautiful and fantastic gal in the whole world. I started and built a nationwide corporation, million dollar payroll, etc, and marrying my wife was still the single smartest thing I've ever done. She's fantastic, and I'm still in love.
And for RufusTFirefly, speaking about my "getting up in years", (you young whippersnapper), we still go skiing 10, 12 times each year, and take long bicycling trips throughout the summer,(at least "long" for me), as well as my mucking-out my horse's stall twice each day, not to mention hacking-out through the woods.
I used to think 40 or 50 was up there, and I still can't believe I'm now 70, but I also can't deny it.
I'd like to wish each of you as much fun and happiness as my wife and I have enjoyed through the years, not just money and material things, which I accept is somewhat important, but going and doing, seeing a good part of life and the world, and always, always smelling a few roses. As Frost said in Two Roads, "I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Thank you all for being so kind and generous with your time and information. But I must go now, "I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Chuck