Twelve Years On
Hagenbuch.org is almost a teenager, with 12 years of articles, research, and storytelling under its belt! Considering this milestone, it is tough to believe how much time has passed. It seems like only a...
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Thoughts on Christian Hagenbuch’s Last Will and Testament
Christian Hagenbuch was born on December 17, 1747 at the Hagenbuch Homestead in present-day Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Back then, Albany Township was on the frontier and still part of Philadelphia County within...
Eleven Years On
Honestly, I can’t believe that another year of Hagenbuch.org has come and gone. Eleven years now—was there ever a time I was not working on genealogy and brainstorming another article for this site? As...
Christian Hagenbuch’s Last Will and Testament
Christian Hagenbuch (b. 1747) was the third son of Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715), who immigrated to America in 1737. He was born December 17, 1747 in Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Andreas and...
Book Review: “How We Ate: Pennsylvania Dutch Foodways”
Historical research is challenging, especially when it is on a niche topic like our Hagenbuch family. Good sources are few and far between and, when you do find something, it is often incomplete. Earlier...
New Year’s Day: The Importance of Days
Is there an importance to having New Year’s Day as a significant day in our legacy? It would take hours to sift through Beechroots to find our ancestors that were born exactly on January...
Where Does Our Story Go From Here?
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...
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....
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 76th Hagenbuch Reunion: What’s It All About?
Seventy three Hagenbuch family reunions were held until it was reorganized in 2018 bringing us all back together. We wanted to invite not just the descendants of William (b. 1807) and Rebecca (Muffley) Hagenbuch,...
