A complete table of ancestors naturally expands rapidly the further one goes back: 2 parents, 4 grand parents, 8 great-grand parents etc. In the 12 generations of which our geneological tree consists there would have been thousands of ancestors, even if one takes into consideration that due to marriage of relatives the number of ancestors is reduced. This happened twice in our family: Hannss Heberlin (III, 1) married Anna Marie Marckher (IV,1) and later Johann Georg married his cousin.

A similarly difficult task is to establish a complete list of all descendants of one ancestor, namely the above mentioned Hans Heberlin (1,2). If one assumes that his marriage and the marriages of his descendants were closely as prolific as that of his ancestor, who should have thousands of descendants by this time. Indeed our line of the family is probably not the only one which can be traced back to him; the apparently not complete list of his descendants names seven sons, of which only the date of their birth and in some cases the date of their marriage is known. It is not very probable that all of the died childless. (Although in the death lists of the year 1612 and 1625 it is said that over 22 respectively over 17 unknown dead persons were carried out).

It is not improbable that one or other line of our family moved away and founded a family somewhere else. The church registers of Weinsberg give no such information since before the establishment of family registers the moving away of parishioners was not registered. There is the possibility that other families of the same name discover their connection with Weinsberg.