![]() Anton didn’t just have a large family, he had a huge family. Joseph Anton and Victoria had five children, including Anton Schneider, Maria’s great-grandfather who was born in 1857. As it turns out, Joseph Anton is Maria’s 2nd-great-grandfather. (my 3rd-great-grandfather, who was born in 1818 and married Maria Franziska Angstenberger in 1849) and Joseph Anton (who was born in 1819 and married Victoria Leberle in 1855). Their two other children were Bonifazius Sr. Xaver and Victoria had four children, but two sadly died as infants. In my previous post on our Wössingen family, I noted my 4th-great grandparents were Xaver and Victoria Schneider. Maria then explained that she had confirmed that we were cousins and explained our relationship. ![]() Maria told me she was born in Wössingen in 1960 and that a school friend had told her about the blog (thank you Erna!). Then Monday morning, I received a very special e-mail from Maria Schneider. On Sunday, August 14, I received an e-mail notification that the blog got a new follower with the last name Schneider. To our good fortune, a village festival brought her to Wössingen recently, where she made that contact. Having lived in the area, she knew that Schneiders still resided in Wössingen and offered to help make contact with them. While Googling to find her friend’s Johannes, she found our Johannes and the blog. Recall from this previous post that Johannes Angstenberger also happens to be the name of my fifth great grandfather who passed away in Wössingen in 1806. Back in May, I was contacted by a German woman named Erna who told me she stumbled on to my blog while looking for an old childhood friend who just so happened to have married a man named Johannes Angstenberger. While Amy, the girls and I were in Italy taking Sydney over for her semester abroad in Rome, goal number three was finally fulfilled. ![]() It was to cross my fingers in the hopes that someday a distant overseas cousin might find me through the blog. The third goal was always going to be the trickiest. The second was simpler: to document my research over time so that some future family member who elects to dig into our history has a base on which to start (at least assuming the Internet doesn’t disappear some day). The first, of course, was to tell the stories of those “ocean-crossing” ancestors that took the plunge to come to America and to whom we literally owe our existence. When I started this blog, I had a few goals in mind. This time, I’ll kick start the blog with something even better. The last time this happened, I kick-started things with new discoveries within our Schneider family tree that took us all the way back to 18th Century Germany. So, once again, I’ve allowed the blog to go a bit dormant for too long.
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