Four Guemann Sisters: Catherine, Marie, Françoise, and Elisabeth

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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