Many familiar last names including Diller, Hilty, Bucher, Burry, Badetscher, Steiner, Geiger and others Take a close look at these...

Three little rural Pandora Lugibihl sisters posed for the camera at the turn of an earlier century. They are from left, Edna Lugibihl...

Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...

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...

What did the Gerber twins witness flying overhead in 1923? What did the twin Gerber brothers witness flying over their farm in the summer...

Here are two extremely rare photographs of Northern Ohio Railway steam locomotives. Both photos were taken in the rural countryside...

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

It was a winter afternoon in 1965 when this Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad freight train derailed in Pandora, Ohio. Charles Hilty,...

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

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

John Bösiger was born in Alsace, France. When he was 23 a close friend, John Steiner – both living in the community of Belfort, France –...