- May 10
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 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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- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
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
- 7 min
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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- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
1914 Amstutz reunion
This gathering of relatives and friends at the P. B. Amstutz, home, one mile west and one-half mile south of Bluffton took place in the...
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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 12, 2022
- 2 min
INDEX to Swiss Connection
About Our Swiss Connection During his retirement years, Bluffton Swiss genealogist, the late Herb Probst, created a genealogical overview...
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- Jan 11, 2022
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 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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- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Christian John and Katherine Steiner Luginbuhl
The year 1824 was a special one for many Bluffton-Pandora Swiss pioneers. The ship, Boston, left Le Harve, France, with 118 passengers...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
The story of Christian "Black Beard" Bösiger
A separate Swiss Connection column in this series focuses on the parents of Christian, Jr., Bösiger, who came to America in 1824. Click...
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- Oct 13, 2021
- 3 min
Johannes and Barbara Walti Geiger
Johannes Geiger was 44 years old when he brought his wife, Barbara (Walti) and their five children, John, Verena, Barbara, Peter and...
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