Good Things Come in Threes
They say good things come in threes: three wishes, three gifts of the Magi, and for my wife, Sara, and I, three children. In August, we welcomed a third child to our family—a daughter—Rosanna...
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Ray Hagenbaugh and the LAPD Shrine Club
There are multiple lines of Hagenbaughs living in the United States. These Hagenbaughs are actually Hagenbuchs. It’s just that their pronunciation and spelling of our family name has changed over time. California is one...
William Hagenbuck: From Soldier To Entrepreneur
It is well documented that the Hagenbuch name changed in spelling and pronunciation as family members moved west. For instance, at least one group of relatives was using “Hagenbuck” by the 1840s. These individuals...
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...
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...
Deitschy Humor: Professor Herman F. Schnitzel
Who doesn’t enjoy a good laugh? I believe most everyone does, and in this way the Pennsylvania Dutch (also known as the Pennsylvania Deitsch) are no exception. They even have humorists whom they call...
Discovery: An Historic Hagenbaugh Rock Carving
At the end of a long day of traveling, a young man searched for a spot to camp among an outcropping of boulders. Night was falling on this, the last day of winter, 1899....
Alphabet Soup: Abreu to Zisch
If you have been reading the articles that Andrew and I have written over the past eight years, you know that I often reference my “paper records”, as I call them. I wrote about...
Preserving Family History Through Obituaries
Genealogists use a lot of resources to ply their craft. Andrew and I have written a lot about this—how we use the census, grave records, death certificates, oral histories, and many other sources. One...
Stuck on Charles W. Hagenbaugh, Part 3
Over the last few months, I have been working to determine where Charles William Hagenbaugh (b. 1862, d. 1913) should be placed on our family tree. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this...
