Jan 22
Ernest and Lona Welty Bauman
Ernest is a late-comer to the Swiss immigrant scene, arriving here in 1920 Ernest Bauman is a late-comer to the Swiss immigrant scene of...
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Jan 22
INDEX to Swiss Connection
46 Bluffton-Pandora Swiss family genealogies in this series Most recent update Jan. 22, 2024 About Our Swiss Connection During his...
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Jan 16
110 years ago - an Amstutz reunion
Many familiar last names including: Bixel, Gratz, Geiger, Winkler, Gerber and others This gathering of relatives and friends at the P. B....
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Jan 9
Peter and Katherina Liechty Schnegg
The family arrived in America at the port of New Orleans Peter and Katherina Liechty Schnegg came to America from Switzerland in 1890....
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Oct 23, 2023
Ebenezer women's SS class in 1890s
Members last names included Diller, Bixel, Althaus, Geiger, Augsburger, Bucher, Amstutz, Gratz - probably related to half of the Bluffton...
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May 10, 2023
Amstutz, Winkler, Welty, Roethlisberger families 1914
John Ulrich Amstutz was an early Bluffton-Pandora Swiss entrepreneur Members of the John Ulrich and Katharina J. (Amstutz) Amstutz...
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Mar 16, 2023
Schumacher and Diller families
With Zimmerly, Steiner, Luginbuhl, Suter, Hilty, Geiger, Welty, Moser and many other local family connections Within these two family...
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Feb 14, 2023
6 Habegger brothers
Third generation of Swiss immigrants to live in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement The sons of Isaac and Rebecca Shank Habegger posed...
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Jan 20, 2023
Peter and Elizabeth Suter Schumacher
Click here for an index to families listed in Our Swiss Connection. In 1839, three years after the arrival of the pioneer Schumacher...
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Jan 3, 2023
John and Barbara Steiner Schumacher
Note: This is our first Swiss Connection feature after a several-month absence. This is the 47th feature in this series of...
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Feb 24, 2022
Emanuel Lugibill family
The information in this column is provided by Carol Koontz Heath. She is the great-granddaughter of Emanuel Lugibill, granddaughter of...
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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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Feb 15, 2022
John Steiner - Elizabeth Stauffer Steiner - Anna Burkhalter Steiner
Note: This series contains several persons with the same name, particularly in the Steiner columns. There are at least three Steiner's...
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Feb 4, 2022
Bluffton's Hauenstein druggists and musicians
Steve Hauenstein is the author of this material. His bio is at the bottom of the feature. Heinrich (Henry) Hauenstein was born in Unter...
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Jan 27, 2022
Johannes and Elisabeth Steiner Habegger
Johannes (or John) Habegger, at age 22, came to the Bluffton-Pandora Settlement from Switzerland with his parents, Johannes Ulrich and...
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Jan 18, 2022
Many last names in this story
It’s likely that any reader of this column might find an ancestor listed in this story. That’s because this family story includes many...
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Jan 11, 2022
Mathias and Lidia Augstburger Badertscher
In a search for Bluffton area Badertscher families we found three going back to the 1700s. Christian Badertscher (1782-1838) married...
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Jan 6, 2022
Thomas and Catherine Hilti Fett
Many of our country roads are named after residents who settled in the area and who owned land along the road carrying their name. Among...
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Dec 22, 2021
Triplett and Amstutz families
This column’s focus on a Bluffton Amstutz family also includes the Will Triplett family information, as Mr. Triplett married into it. The...
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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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