I was surfing through the logs of searches made on this site and noticed a few simple entries for abe. Abe Fettig is not directly related to me, but by coincidence appears to be as passionate about open source-ware as I am. His website can be found at fettig.net. I vaguely remember writing him a while back... I hope that someday we will be able to meet up. His work on HEP appears extremely interesting.
Cheers!
As a side note: as far as I know, all the Fettigs in the US are distant relatives of one another. We seem to have all emmigrated from Germany and Russia (although the Russians were really from Germany) around 1900... So, I guess I could say we are honestly related... except I have no idea how.