Documentation Overrides Tradition: The Bernese Heritage of the Legendary Hans Herr and His Wife Elsbet Lotscher
Recently I wrote a four-part narrative titled “Ancestral Families of Sarah Adaline “Addie” (Grove) Garber…
Four Guemann Sisters: Catherine, Marie, Françoise, and Elisabeth
The Lutheran church in Étobon as viewed from the Guemann home. The Lutheran Church in…
Visiting the Archives in Bern, Switzerland
The September 2019 “Hostettler Heritage Tour” visited the Staatsarchiv in Bern, Switzerland, to view original…
Organizing Records—What To Do with All These Family Documents!
This has been a difficult article to write because all of us have unique ways…
Mennonites Tracking Their Persecuted Ancestors in Switzerland
Ruedi Gut (left) with Peter Dettwiler (right), both living in Knonau. It was not the…
A Grove of Family Trees . . . Ancestral Families of Sarah Adaline “Addie” (Grove) Garber (1872-1950) Part III: Snyder Lineage
Addie (Grove) Garber, ca1887 As a child, I was a twig among cousins, uncles and…