Hagenbuch family history & genealogy
Our understanding of Hagenbuch family history is a work in progress. Discoveries shed new light on the past and sometimes rewrite what we thought we already knew. Earlier this year, several changes were proposed...
Anna Barbara Hagenbuch was Andreas Hagenbuch’s eldest child—or so we thought. A few weeks ago, while researching Andreas’s birthdate, I needed to review the birth order of his children. The standard family tree for...
Between March and April of 2017, three articles were written about the Revolutionary War service of the patriarch Andreas Hagenbuch’s four sons: Henry (b. 1737), Michael (b. 1746), Christian (b. 1747), and John (b....
Today we know substantially more about our common ancestor, Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715, d. 1785), than was understood even a decade ago. Below are a few articles that capture some of this knowledge. Yet,...
After dealing with our family history for 55 years, I have noticed some things about our genealogical efforts compared to others. This is all about “no brag, just fact” as our Hagenbuch family research...
The impetus behind me deciding to write about our Kistler family occurred over a month ago. I was thinking about people I knew from my experiences here in northern York County, Pennsylvania when I...
As my father, Mark, and I have often written, genealogy is much more than names and dates. But what happens when a crucial part of our family’s story is dependent upon one or two...
Genealogy is like a giant jigsaw puzzle—one where key pieces are missing and a clear picture of what is being assembled is unknown. This article, the first in a two-part series, will examine a...
Like many American families, our Hagenbuch family story is one of movement. It began in Switzerland sometime before the 1500s, migrated to what is now Germany in the 1600s, and finally came to America...
Talking with my father the other day, he mentioned that I should begin writing a recap for the previous year of Hagenbuch.org. Really? Has another year passed already? Four years ago, this site was...
