I have been in contact with someone NOT related ‘directly’ yet we share a common ancestor. Once again, we have a Pimsner to thank for bringing us together! HIS surname is Bodenlos. Yes, this IS a Metzenseifen surname. In my database there are a few Bodenlos individuals – Anna Bodenlos married John Pimsner. It is Anna’s sibling who Bill is descended from.
Thanks to the internet, more people are searching – not necessarily for their ‘roots’ but just querying Google, or Bing or… What’s out there and who can I find?
I like adding additional ‘links’ to my family information for just this reason! If I include the parents of someone who married into my family or maybe even the siblings of the in-law along with their information then when someone is querying and the name pops up they have an inside track on where their family might have been at that point in time. That’s pretty cool!
