Pat
I suspect somewhere there is a 'spam all genealogy' boards program - there have been several previous posters (all american I think) who have posted here where any, even cursory, examination of the other posts on the board would indicate their post had no relevance - the most charitable view I have is that they have merely put 'german' 'genealogy' into a search engine and havn't bothered to ask themselves why no other postings have german names !