Today's surname study connects to the family with my wife's eighth great grandmother, Barbara Boss. As with several other surname posts so far, I only know one person in my research with this surname. Here's what I do know...
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Surname Saturday: Bircher
Now that the holiday rush is past, it's time to get back into regular updates again. We pick up where we left off with a line on my wife's side again. This is another case where I only know of one person with this surname. It is her eighth-great grandmother, Verene Bircher.
Ryan's completed project
Back in September, I wrote about a heritage project that was assigned in my son's American History class. The project is now complete (okay, it was shown a couple weeks ago, I've just had so many other things going on that I couldn't scrape together a block of time large enough to retouch the photo and post it here), and Ryan has a better idea of how one branch of our family migrated from Switzerland through Alsace-Lorraine to Indiana. Here he is with his completed project and a few other students' projects around it...
Ryan chose to further examine the time that our family spent in France. The seated woman in the photograph (just to the right of Ryan's shoulder) is Anna Klopfenstein Shanebeck who was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1834 and died at age 97 in Allen County, Indiana; the article including the photograph is a copy of her obituary. You can expect to see more about her in future posts.
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