This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Gk.2ADI/1091.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi! Recently saw your posting. We are related thru the Hoffman family. My great-grandmother was Mary Hoffman Werner. She married Joseph Werner. Mary was sister to your Joseph. Both were children of Lorenz Hoffman and Anna Marie Laparl. My sister was also married to a closer Hoffman cousin of yours. George Hoffman Jr. son of George Hoffman Sr.