A Deitschy Day in PA
The deepest roots of our Hagenbuch family tree stretch into Switzerland and Germany. However, for those Hagenbuchs living in the United States, it is an oversimplification to refer to ourselves only as Swiss-German. After...
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Family Matriarch: Catherine (Messersmith) Lindner
The Hagenbuch archives contain three photographs depicting Catherine (Messersmith/Messerschmidt) Lindner. Catherine was the mother of Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch who was born in 1853 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Mary Ann married Hiram Hagenbuch (b....
The Mysterious Peter Hagenbuch
When I was about 13 years of age, I began my journey of learning about and researching our family history. I had a copy of the family tree which William Hagenbaugh of California had...
The House That Hiram Hagenbuch Built
Ever since first seeing the house on the hill in June of 2015, I have been obsessed. Obsessed in wondering what it was like for my great grandparents and their passel of children to...
Christmas Ornaments
The tradition of decorating an evergreen tree during the Christmas season is believed to have started in Germany during the 1500s. Our early Hagenbuch ancestors certainly knew and practiced this custom before coming to...
Mystery Solved: The Missing Hagenbuch Gravestones
This article is the second part in a series documenting a visit to the Hagenbuch homestead in October of 2018. The first part can be read here. After finishing our lunch at the Deitsch...
Four Years On
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...
The Eyes Have It
There is a genealogical approach that distinguishes a “name and date only” genealogist from what I would call a “family” genealogist; and I would classify Andrew and myself as the second type. A family...
Locating Christian Hagenbuch’s House and Distillery
In 2016, I stumbled upon the plans for Christian Hagenbuch’s (b. 1747, d. 1812) house within the Joseph Downs Collection at the Winterthur Library. The plans were drafted in 1783, and I suspected that...
In Search of Hagenbuch History
Recently, my father, Mark Hagenbuch, and I spent the day visiting a number of sites within Northampton County, Pennsylvania. We were there in search of Hagenbuch history and had high hopes of uncovering new...
