Your Husband, Ben: Letters from the Civil War, Part 3
In Part 2 of this series, Benjamin “Ben” Del Fel Hagenbuch (b. 1833) had joined the Union Army for a third time in late 1864. After training, he arrived in Virginia and participated in...
In Part 2 of this series, Benjamin “Ben” Del Fel Hagenbuch (b. 1833) had joined the Union Army for a third time in late 1864. After training, he arrived in Virginia and participated in...
In Part 1 of this series, we met Benjamin “Ben” Del Fel Hagenbuch (b. 1833) who lived in Columbia County, Pennsylvania with his family. Ben joined the Union Army in 1861 and again in...
Journals, letters, and postcards are some of the best ways to examine the daily lives of our ancestors. Sixteen letters, penned by Benjamin Del Fel Hagenbuch during the American Civil War, are held by...
There was a time in American history when a dollar wasn’t always a dollar and when your local bank was more likely to have printed the paper money in your wallet than the federal...
When I was eleven years old, my parents purchased a video camera. Soon my sisters, cousins, friends, and I were making home movies. The films, with titles like The Detention Girl, had loose plot...
Every branch on our Hagenbuch family tree has a story, and one of the goals of this site is to share as many of these stories as possible. Several weeks ago, I heard from...
My father, Mark, and I are actively working to document our Hagenbuch family in America—the descendants of Andreas (b. 1715). I once compared this task to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, each of...
Last year, we explored how two Christian Hagenbuchs of about the same age were living in Ohio during the mid-1800s. These were Christian (b. 1770) who was the son of Michael (b. 1746) and...
Love child, illegitimate, and bastard—all describe a child born to unmarried parents. Today, these words don’t ruffle as many feathers as they once did. Yet, for our ancestors they carried significant social stigma and...
Our Hagenbuch genealogy has plenty of gaps, mysteries, and other unknowns. In August of 2018, we introduced one of these: connecting the descendants of Joseph (b. 1811) and Lydia (Hahn) Hagenbuch (b. 1812) to...