Hope Kauffman Lind - Mennonite Family History

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 (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

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A Grove of Family Trees . . . Ancestral Families of Sarah Adaline “Addie” (Grove) Garber (1872-1950) Part III: Snyder Lineage

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