When my grandfather Leopold Ondracek began to collect information about his ancestors during World War II, a work which his son, Erhard Schindler continued beyond the then necessary few generations for the infamous "Ariernachweis", their quests for birth certificates, especially in Cechoslovakia and Poland dried off necessarily with dates nearing the turmoils of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648.
With the arrival of the Web maybe there are new chances to get information about our relationship, another way of spanning the globe as the statistics tell us: That between the farthest two people on earth there is a chain of only seven persons knowing each other.

Because, 1) as Philip Jose Farmer so thoughtfully ponders, just imagine: Each one of us has 2 parents, 4 grand-parents, 8 great-grand-parents and so forth in a geometrically encreasing number, so that with an average of four generations each century we each have 550 billion ancestors with the end of the first Millennium A.C. This gigantic number is just a theorethical concept and possible only if we ignore the practice of in-breeding, a in our time unbelievable high rate of multiple parentship in the past centuries and the fact that the more we look into the past we do have more and more common fore-parents.

2) Our first common ancestor seems to be an African lady by the name of Mitochondria between 200.000 and 100.000 B.C. starting a slowly growing geometric curve in the opposite direction, leading to an estimated world populace of 160 million people around Year Zero, 350 million around Year 1.000, and even with several serious curve indent causes around - only to mention a few known in our History - like the Plague, the above mentioned TYW, the ongoing Age of Abundance and whatnot, considerably more than 6 billion people in the year 2000 (See also Population Growth page: www.population connection.org). Put these two curves against each other and you will see them meeting earlier than you might have ever thought. There is no chance other than we all are more closely related to each other than we seem and, above all, act.

Let's find out the reason for the dark pigmented spots on the gums of my wife her dentist told her stem from Black ancestry , the re-occuring mongolian spot (Ito-Nävus) in the north of Europe or the kinky hair of your aunt. And let's not leave out the Basks with their high rate of six fingers ...

I would like to encourage you to browse my pages to find possible common ancestry of your family with mine. Feel free to download this site. It was exported to HTML-pages from a program called REUNION by Leister Productions for both computing platforms, PC and Mac. I highly recommend its purchase, the building of a family file with it and either a posting on your own site or - congruency provided - a transmission (after stuff-zip-compression attachment) to me: . We might grow into some kind of four-dimensional web.

I eagerly look forward to each of your contributions.
Let's link together, because, as the tribe of the Oglala Lakota Sioux once said
and the title of this page cites:
"Mitakuye oyasin."
Meaning: "We are all related to each other."

Let's do the Time Warp! Jump right in -> The Family Tree