- Nov 25
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 2 min
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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