Hi Kathy,
I see that nobody ever replied to your request for informaiton on your Paffenroth family on the Ancestry.com message board back in 2000. I'd be willing to help.
My mother is a Poffenroth, (same family, just different spelling). Both Paffenroth's and Poffenroth's descended from Andreas Pfaffenroth; it's just a matter of figuring out how (I've got about 1200 of his descendants). If you can give me some names, maybe we can find a connection or more informaiton for you.
Brad Jones