Recently I wrote a four-part narrative titled “Ancestral Families of Sarah Adaline “Addie” (Grove) Garber (1872-1950)….” The legendary Hans Herr was one of her ancestors. Part II of the narrative covered the Herr family. I noted there the long-standing tradition that he was from Canton Zurich in Switzerland, but that one record of 1671 refugees […]
What caused the Guemann sisters to leave their home in Étobon,1 France, in the nineteenth century for America while their two brothers remained in France? When only the women of a family immigrate to America, their last names disappear among their descendants, and their pre-immigration stories may vanish as well. By recounting some of the
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The September 2019 “Hostettler Heritage Tour” visited the Staatsarchiv in Bern, Switzerland, to view original records pertaining to the Hostettler family. Dr. Barbara Studer Immenhauser, archivist at the Staatsarchiv Bern, shared informative facts before introducing Hans Hostettler who has retired from serving at the Archives for years. He shared the following. Good morning, Ladies and
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As a child, I was a twig among cousins, uncles and aunts in the family tree of my Garber grandparents, Leonard and Addie (Grove) Garber. While filling in the names of ancestors in my new brother’s baby book, I asked Grandma Addie about her Grove ancestry, and I penciled her answers in a brown spiral
When I began collecting information and data prior to writing Jacob J. Dyck: Am Trakt To America (ATTA), I relied on the best existing sources at that time, 1996-2000. This often included information that was researched and written, sometimes published, by other persons as well as oral history from older relatives. Since the book
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The Jantzi Family and the French Revolution Although we do not know when the Jantzis arrived in France, it is certain they experienced the French Revolution and its aftermath. As isolated as they were, they may have escaped the worst of the terrorism itself, but the outcome of the Revolution affected them a great deal.
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