A Decade of Stories
Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed on October 30, 2014, ten years ago, that articles about our family history and related topics would have mushroomed into a huge volume of information....
This Week's Article From the Beech Grove
Ten Years On
A decade ago in the summer of 2014, I was living in California and filled with thoughts of my Pennsylvania family and the lives of our ancestors. I knew that years before, my father,...
The Stories Go On and On and On
The scenarios could have been very different over the past 50 plus years. I may have had no interest in our Hagenbuch family’s history. Uncle Perce may have never latched on to me as...
Dr. Elmer J. Hagenbaugh: Library Thief, Physician, and Convict
On January 30, 1890, 26-year-old Elmer J. Hagenbaugh was arrested in Los Gatos, California. He was charged with grand larceny and accused of stealing $206 of books (around $7,000 today) from the State Library...
Bolstering Beechroots with Hagenbuchs, Sheffers, Irvins, and Hymeses
As we approach the end of the tenth year of writing articles for Hagenbuch.org (yes, that will be 520 articles!), Andrew and I have discussed, “Where are we going from here?” The impetus of...
Dowager Julia A. (Landbach) Hagenbuch
If you have ever watched a Marx Brothers’ film, then you are probably familiar with the character of the dowager—a wealthy widow. In many of the Marx Brothers’ films, the dowager was portrayed by...
Judy Hymes: A Hagenbuch Genealogist
I really can’t pinpoint when I decided to begin my second wave of researching and recording of the Hagenbuch family history; but it was sometime soon after Linda and I were married in December...
There’s More to the Story
Our Hagenbuch genealogy remains a work in progress. Look back at this site’s earliest articles and you will likely find an inconsistent detail or unfinished story. When my father, Mark, and I first began...
Picture Perfect: Family in Photos
The Hagenbuch photo archives are massive. I have drawers of photos. I have boxes of photos, and I have folders filled with photos. Some are filed by family, but many are stored as a...
Taufscheine for Norman Hagenbuch and Maggie Linsenbigler
A few weeks ago, I was leafing through a book my father, Mark, had given to me: To These Parents: A Compendium of Pennsylvania German Taufscheine, Volume One. One Taufschein—a birth and baptism document—caught...
