About the Hagenbuch Family
Every family has a story. So in that sense, the Hagenbuch family is like any other. Although, when you look past the surface, you’ll start to discover what makes each family unique. Again, the...
Hagenbuch Beech Grove
The Proposal: Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis, Part 4
Although the Sechler family of Pennsylvania only impacts the genealogy of a fraction of our readers, the letters that Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis wrote to each other in 1879 and 1880 open a...
Poetry in Enoch’s Written History
In February 2020, I examined Enoch Hagenbuch’s (b. 1814) written history and celebrated the addition of his family information to Beechroots (Revisiting Enoch Hagenbuch’s Written History). Enoch writes of names and personal details, yet...
Love Letters Continued: Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis, Part 3
Samuel Sechler and Mary Davis were married on December 1, 1880. They are the parents of Hannah Margaret Sechler who married Clarence Charles Hagenbuch—great great great grandson of the patriarch Andreas and grandfather of...
A Winter’s Day in Hagenbuch Country
On a cold January day, my father, Mark Hagenbuch, and I ventured into Hagenbuch country—Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. We had three important stops planned for the day, all of significance to our family....
Painting Portraits of Our Family, Part 2
The primary career of women, like Andreas’ wives, in colonial America was housewife or Hausfrau (that is, running the household) and raising the children. However, Andreas’ daughters and possibly a granddaughter were also likely...
Revisiting Enoch Hagenbuch’s Written History
In the summer of 2015, this site published a series of four articles about Enoch Hagenbuch (b. 1814) and his written history (Enoch Hagenbuch: Early Family Historian, Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4). Enoch...
Painting Portraits of Our Family, Part 1
An often heard quote states: “Find a job you enjoy doing and you won’t have to work a day in your life.” Most people’s first jobs are out of necessity and aren’t what they...
Family Foods
What foods conjure memories of your family past and present? A few weeks ago, while planning a trip to my parents’ house, I asked if they had any favorite dishes that their parents used...
E.T. Write Home!
It is Sunday, January 19th, and I just got off the phone with Gayle (Hagenbuch) Ticen, a descendant of Eli Thornton Hagenbuch. It was a warm and informative conversation with a cousin whom I...
Child Mortality and the Family of Joseph Hagenbaugh
One of my goals for our Hagenbuch genealogy is to document all of the descendants of Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and place them on our family tree. So far, over 2,000 of these have...
