Dear Ms Naas: I read your entry in ancestry.com re: Puthoff/Austing. While assigned to US Army Military Police Customs, my father, Gilbert Louis Bernard Austing Jr, located relatives in Damme im Lohne. We visited St Viktor's Church. I'm wondering if Anna Catherine Austing is related to me. We visited Josef Austing, who had a "Kraftfutterwerk" in Damme. I can't remember his wife's name, but they met us at the train station in Oldenburg, Germany and took us back to their home for a few days. My grandfather, Gilbert Louis Bernard Austing Sr's father had emigrated from Germany in the 1870's; Dad had traced us back a few generations prior to that. If you'd care to correspond with me, I can be reached at
maus@tusco.net.