Robert startet to collect all the data to built up a pedigree all about the family. He needed so called gedcom-files, usally know by genealogy programs. If you want see you data on our site - please send him your files.

In 2004, we began using DNA testing as an adjunct to our genealogical research, to help us determine relationships where old records were not available because of loss or destruction.  So far we have tested 19 individuals.  We find that we are not one, but several different genetic lines, as might well be expected with a place name such as ours ('Gerstenberger' means 'someone from the town of Gerstenberg').