March 3, 2009
 This Family Tree was created for my children Mandy and Brian and my mom. For several years I've had in my possession a copy of an old family tree created by my aunt Edith Mann who researched our ancestry for many years. I found this really great interactive online site and input the information in a couple of evenings. Noticing the recurrence of Franzfeld and Gundelfingen where many ancestors lived, google found the information I sought and much more; after some digging, I came across a website containing many of the same Hofman names I had listed in my own ancestry. I contacted the administrator who provided me with further information of our ancestry, now going back to the 1500s in Switzerland. I enjoy research and am told I'm really good at it it so when I recently completed a 3 year science project, I found another.