Mar 20
Elm Center School 1916-17
Many familiar last names including Diller, Hilty, Bucher, Burry, Badetscher, Steiner, Geiger and others Take a close look at these...
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Nov 25, 2023
Three Lugibihl sisters from Pandora
Three little rural Pandora Lugibihl sisters posed for the camera at the turn of an earlier century. They are from left, Edna Lugibihl...
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Sep 27, 2023
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
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Sep 27, 2023
Hilty, Reichenbach, Diller, Sommers, Moser and Steiner
If you have a Swiss surname you might be related to someone here If you have a Swiss surname then you might be related to one of these...
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Jun 8, 2023
24 years before Roswell
What did the Gerber twins witness flying overhead in 1923? What did the twin Gerber brothers witness flying over their farm in the summer...
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Mar 14, 2022
Somewhere between Bluffton and Pandora
Here are two extremely rare photographs of Northern Ohio Railway steam locomotives. Both photos were taken in the rural countryside...
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Feb 17, 2022
Updating our Swiss family genealogies
Note to Bluffton Forever viewers of Swiss-German descent: Earlier this week we posted the 41st genealogy column related to persons of...
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Jan 12, 2022
Derailment on the AC & Y
It was a winter afternoon in 1965 when this Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad freight train derailed in Pandora, Ohio. Charles Hilty,...
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Dec 14, 2021
Pandora's Schutz, Geiger and Cherry families
The Schutz family, with several Pandora connections today, was among many of our Swiss pioneers who came to America from the Emmenthal or...
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Oct 13, 2021
John Ulrich Amstutz, an early entrepreneur
This column features one of the most interesting Bluffton-Pandora area Swiss immigrants, John Ulrich Amstutz, and this column is a...
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Oct 6, 2021
Suter cider press was started by John Bösiger (surname became "Basinger")
John Bösiger was born in Alsace, France. When he was 23 a close friend, John Steiner – both living in the community of Belfort, France –...
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