Are you interested in researching persons from Switzerland? Join the Switzerland Project! [closed]

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The mission of the Switzerland Project is to add, source and improve profiles of persons associated with Switzerland and their ancestors. If you are interested in volunteering for this project, please post an answer below, stating that you wish to join the project. I will award you the badge.

Check out our project page link below for what to do next!
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Switzerland

 

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My surname, I've discovered, is deeply rooted in Berne. I would be most appreciative to be included here.

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I am interested in joining the Switzerland Project. I have a paternal great-grandfather that was born there.

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My grandmother is from Switzerland.  Know nothing about her family and woulff love to learn.

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I see this project is "dormant" since at least September 2018. Any chance of reactivating it? And how could we proceed?

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Wondering the same thing.

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All it takes to get this project going again is a volunteer to organize it and keep on top of it. A lot of the groundwork has been done. All the Canton categories are made with at least skeletal information. The big trick will be to get volunteers to take care of the individual Canton pages, and then keep them involved in adding to and updating their pages. I was doing a lot of the work a couple years ago, but a change in career and family dynamics led me to withdraw. Some day in the future I hope to get involved again. For the time being, I can take care of the Cantons I have signed up for (Appenzel and Basel).

It looks like Natalie Trott is the WikiTree goto person to get the project running again. If you contact her I think she will hand it over to you.

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No, I am not the leader in this project any longer. What it needs to get going again is a leader and access to genealogical records.

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Then who would a potential leader contact?

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langholf-2

Contact Eowyn, leader of Europe Project. 

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I hope someone young will please step forward and lead this group out of dormancy. I'm too old to be a leader, but I have 12 years experience and a powerful spreadsheet program with data from the parishes of Wahlern and Guggisberg and nearby parishes in Canton Bern from 1577 to 1772. I will offer to freely investigate any family names from that small area and time. But the project must first be activated so folks can post their surnames.

Bruce Fosnocht

bfosnocht@charter.net

Answer 1

Yes, my mtDNA paper trail leads back to Zurich, Switzerland. My furthest mtDNA ancestor is Anna Freyman, born Mar 1627, Switzerland. Her husband is Hanns Waeber, born Jul 1606, Alstetten, Zurich, Switzerland.

Other Swiss names are: Kehrer, Wymann, Von Rufs, Weber (Zumikon, Zurich), Luthi (Stafa, Zurich), Walder (Holzhausen, Zurich), Brunner (Zumikon, Zurich), Kendig (Zurich, Zurich) (this one died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Bacher (Bern), Christen (Bern), Schapfer/Schupffer (Ruederswil, Bern), Burckhalter (Langnau, Bern), and Roethlisberger (Bern, Bern).

Answer 2

My great-grandparents were born and married in Canton Bern in  Switzerland.  I would like to help, but I really don't know what you need.

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If you read the project page, there is a good explanation. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Switzerland

Read the Goals and the Task List sections for information on what project members do.

Answer 3

Some of my ancestors lived in Erlenbach im Simmental, Bern. Also, I speculate that some lived near Steffisburg, Bern.

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My father was Swiss.  I have a book published in 1951 by Institut Zwicky of Zurich.  It contains the genealogy of 12 Swiss families.  It includes the Bitterli family back to the sixteen hundreds.

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Looking for Swiss relatives with name(s) of Lehman, Lehmann.  Would love to be added to the group.

Answer 6

Yes, I am a descendant of Jacob Stover [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stauffer-910].

Answer 7

I wish to join the project. Thanks.

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I would like to join the project. I am first generation American, my dad and his family were from Switzerland. I still have many 2nd cousins in Switzerland.

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Hang on, folks, I will be getting to you all in the next couple of days.

Answer 9

I would like to volunteer. My father brought us to the U.S. from Zurich in the 1980s and we have a lot of information about his paternal lineage, but not so much about his maternal lineage.

Answer 10

Natalie,

Would you add me to the Switzerland project?

 

Thanks!

Answer 11

I would like to join the Switzerland project.

Answer 12

One of my ancestors is from Glattfelden, Zurich born in 1709 and was an immigrant aboard the Francis and Elizabeth ship.   I would like to be included in the Project.

I am also working toward getting my PRE 1500 badge.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Snider

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I have Swiss roots on my paternal side of the family. Surname Ris or Ries. Would love to join!

Answer 14

I’m born Swiss, paternal family originated from the Posciavo (Grischun). During the 19th century they migrated to a Russia and Poland to escape a famine and made a name for themselves as bakers.

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I would like to join!

My mother's parents came from the eastern part of Zürich and Schaffhausen.

At the moment, I'm hosting the page of Canton Zürich and Canton Schaffhausen here at WIKITREE!

Answer 16

some of my moms ancestor were swiss the Conrad family of west Virginia would love to join thank you

Answer 17

Hello, I would love to join the Switzerland project.

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Hello, I would love to join this group.  The ancestors on my mother's side apparently were in (Canton) Zürich until the 1600s, then fled north along the Rhine, eventually leaving from Rotterdam for Pennsylvania in the early 1700s.

I'm planning to spend Oct and Nov this year in eastern Switzerland trying to find more (and better) accounts of their whereabouts, families, movements, etc.

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I'm sorry, Nathan, the project has no leader and I cannot assign the badge right now. Perhaps a new leader can be found sometime soon!

Answer 19

Yes, I have many Swiss roots in Canton Zürich. Happy to flag those profiles.  Jane

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I'm sorry, Jane, the project has no leader and I cannot assign the badge right now. Perhaps a new leader can be found sometime soon!