Absolutely must share my amazing stroke of luck with this list that I have patiently been following for about a month. Hopefully, it will spell HOPE for others. Starting with an "Ahnennachweis", I concentrated most of my search to date on my mother's side in another part of Germany, when I hit a slight impasse. Decided to check out my Dad's roots in the Frankenthal area, particularly the birth father whom he never knew. On a wild gamble and a prayer that I would not meet with rebuff from a family who did not know of our existence, I called one of the handful of Kling's listed in the phone directory there. I picked this gentleman because he was a school "Rektor" and I felt that such a person might have some tolerance for genealogy. I reached his wife who informed me that he had died 12 years ago, BUT he had a tremendous interest in genealogy and had compiled a fairly extensive "Ahnentafel". WELL, sure enough we were related. His GG grandfather was my GGGgrandfather!!!! I have just received a copy of the Ahnentafel which goes back to the late 1600's and I am THRILLED OUT OF MY MIND. All of these people lived right around the same little area in small towns and villages circling Frankenthal. If any of you have any connection with the following names in the same area, please contact me: Kling ( also Kleng, Klengin), Mersinger (also Merssinger, Mercinier) Peter, Eichinger, Siegel, Schardon, Fruth, Adrian, Fries, Bersch, Ungefehr, Christmann, Wippel, Baumgartner, Schubach, Boxheimer, Storzum, Fouquet Elsa Kahler