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...

46 Bluffton-Pandora Swiss family genealogies in this series Most recent update Jan. 22, 2024 About Our Swiss Connection During his...

Many familiar last names including: Bixel, Gratz, Geiger, Winkler, Gerber and others This gathering of relatives and friends at the P. B....

The family arrived in America at the port of New Orleans Peter and Katherina Liechty Schnegg came to America from Switzerland in 1890....

Members last names included Diller, Bixel, Althaus, Geiger, Augsburger, Bucher, Amstutz, Gratz - probably related to half of the Bluffton...

John Ulrich Amstutz was an early Bluffton-Pandora Swiss entrepreneur Members of the John Ulrich and Katharina J. (Amstutz) Amstutz...

With Zimmerly, Steiner, Luginbuhl, Suter, Hilty, Geiger, Welty, Moser and many other local family connections Within these two family...

Third generation of Swiss immigrants to live in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement The sons of Isaac and Rebecca Shank Habegger posed...

Click here for an index to families listed in Our Swiss Connection. In 1839, three years after the arrival of the pioneer Schumacher...

Note: This is our first Swiss Connection feature after a several-month absence. This is the 47th feature in this series of...

The information in this column is provided by Carol Koontz Heath. She is the great-granddaughter of Emanuel Lugibill, granddaughter of...

Note to Bluffton Forever viewers of Swiss-German descent: Earlier this week we posted the 41st genealogy column related to persons of...

Note: This series contains several persons with the same name, particularly in the Steiner columns. There are at least three Steiner's...

Steve Hauenstein is the author of this material. His bio is at the bottom of the feature. Heinrich (Henry) Hauenstein was born in Unter...

Johannes (or John) Habegger, at age 22, came to the Bluffton-Pandora Settlement from Switzerland with his parents, Johannes Ulrich and...

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...

In a search for Bluffton area Badertscher families we found three going back to the 1700s. Christian Badertscher (1782-1838) married...

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...

This column’s focus on a Bluffton Amstutz family also includes the Will Triplett family information, as Mr. Triplett married into it. The...

The Schutz family, with several Pandora connections today, was among many of our Swiss pioneers who came to America from the Emmenthal or...