Continuing on my search for my HOPFENGARTNER line I decided to post a message on Ancestry.com forums for Bavaria, Germany requesting help in locating possible military records for my Lorenz HOPFENGARTNER.

After one day I received an initial email giving me some ideas and hope that I would find a connection.  At first I had to figure out the possible religion of my line, which more then likely was Lutheran.   I talked to my grandmother and she said that when she was a child she went to a Lutheran school.

So we have the religion, but now we had to break it down to possible districts in Nuremberg.  Feeling lost, I received another email stating that the poster is contacting someone who has done some research on HOPFENGARTNER.

Next day I received and email with a instructions on how to to gain some files on the HOPFENGARTNERS.  They provided me with a AL number for the files and told me I could get them either digital or paper.  I am going for paper copy, that way I can then digitize them self when they arrive.  It will take about 2 weeks I am thinking after emailing them, and will cost about 15-30 Euro (per what the poster said).

The email was to sga @ vsff.de. It looks to be a Genealogy Society in Germany. I did some more searching on thier website and found another database (probably the initial database that I requested information from).  I have never seen this info before but it looks to be good for German Genealogy (probably localized, but I have not gotten that in depth into it just yet) - maybe another post for that one.