The following information came from Richard Dils web site located at WorldConnect at www.Rootsweb.com. His email address listed there was "rmdils@erienet.net". Another good site I found at WorldConnect on the Dils was done by Douglas Weaver. His email was "genealogy@mediaone.net". Much of their information comes from the book "More Palatine Families," pages 72-73.
Many of the ancestors of this period were said to be from the area of Urbach. In the present day Germany, there are four areas named Urbach. The correct one was said to be Northeast of Neuwied.
The one matching that description is about 46 miles southeast of Koln (Cologne), Germany at approximatly 50.56 degrees North Latitude and 7.59 degrees East Longitude.
Other towns mentioned and the distance from them to Urbach is as follows.
Urbach is:
About 2 miles SE of Linkenbach,
About 4 miles W of Dierdorf.
About 6 miles NNE of Anhausen.
About 5 miles N of Thalhausen.
About 13 miles NNE of Neuwied.
About 10 miles SSE of Flammersfeld.
About 46 miles SE of Koln.