The year 1824 was a special one for many Bluffton-Pandora Swiss pioneers. The ship, Boston, left Le Harve, France, with 118 passengers...

A separate Swiss Connection column in this series focuses on the parents of Christian, Jr., Bösiger, who came to America in 1824. Click...

Johannes Geiger was 44 years old when he brought his wife, Barbara (Walti) and their five children, John, Verena, Barbara, Peter and...

Peter Badertscher, a skilled cabinet maker and carpenter, was born Sept. 29, 1805, to Christian (1720-1838) and Barbara Gerber...

This series also features David and Elizabeth Neuenschwander Stauffer family. One of their children, Regina, married Christian Matter....

John and Elizabeth Zimmerly Diller • Peter and Barbara Suter Diller • Diller is an Americanized spelling of Thüler Many Swiss pioneers...

A word about this series: Several viewers inquire about the sources of material in these columns. Here is the answer. Before ancestry.com...

When early pioneers came to America they could speak or understand very little English. You can see the difficulty the immigration...

This column’s focus is on John Ulrich Amstutz, a farmer and tradesman, whose farm was located on the south side of the Allen-Putnam...

This column features one of the most interesting Bluffton-Pandora area Swiss immigrants, John Ulrich Amstutz, and this column is a...

1st in a 2-part series on the children in this family Note: This column is in two parts. It follows three children whose parents were...

2nd in a 2 part series featuring these three children This is the second part of a two-part series on the three children of Johannes and...

Special focus on Rev. John and Anna Lehmann Moser This column features the Jacob and Barbara Wahli Moser family, with a special emphasis...

We have identified our community as Swiss pioneers, but find many of our ancestors came to American from France and we need to go further...

Karl and Anna Weber Badertscher and family are this week’s focus. Karl, the youngest of five children, was born to Ulrich and Anna Walti...

Note the variation spellings of “Lugibuhl” in this family. Two Lugibuhl brothers came to our community from Wayne County, Ohio, after...

John F. Steiner married Barbara Habegger on March 15, 1832, in France. John was also known as “Buchwald Hans” because of the area where...

Peter Hilty (note spelling change from parent’s Hilti) was the son of Michael and Elisabeth Thüler (Americanized to Diller) Hilti. Peter...

Christian Bucher was born July 3, 1778, in Langnau Emmental, Canton Bern, Switzerland. He was the son of Friedrick and Elizabeth (Luti)...

One of those families included the Icon editor, Fred Steiner. Probst provided copies of each of these genealogies to Steiner. With the...