What Is All This Nonsense?
Lately, I have been reading a lot of nonsense. I’m not talking about social media posts or news stories. Rather, I keep running across information about our Hagenbuch family that makes no sense to...
Category: Genealogy
Bolstering Beechroots with Hagenbuchs, Sheffers, Irvins, and Hymeses
As we approach the end of the tenth year of writing articles for Hagenbuch.org (yes, that will be 520 articles!), Andrew and I have discussed, “Where are we going from here?” The impetus of...
Judy Hymes: A Hagenbuch Genealogist
I really can’t pinpoint when I decided to begin my second wave of researching and recording of the Hagenbuch family history; but it was sometime soon after Linda and I were married in December...
Searching for Robert, Walter, Righter, and Agnes
As Andrew and I continue to write articles about our Hagenbuch family, we find Hagenbuchs who never appeared on the radar during the first 50 years of my research. Never in my wildest dreams...
The Michigan Unknowns Are Identified!
As I prepared to write this article, I was reminded of the Bible parable of the shepherd and the lost lamb. The shepherd searched and searched until the lamb was found. He did not...
Our Family Tree: Five Decades of Progress and Counting!
After dealing with our family history for 55 years, I have noticed some things about our genealogical efforts compared to others. This is all about “no brag, just fact” as our Hagenbuch family research...
Puzzling Over Stephen Hagenbuch and His Descendants
Rita Ann (Hagenbuch) Waldron died on December 20, 2022 in Springfield, Ohio. She was 101 and would have been 102 on January 2nd. She was predeceased by her husband, Willis, who passed away in...
DNA, Genealogy, and Our Search for Identity
A few weeks ago, I read a story about a man who suspected that he was not the father of his daughter. The little girl had brown eyes, when both parents had blue eyes....
The Wolfes of Columbia County, Part 2
In part one of this series, our readers were introduced to the first four children of Stephen and Maria (Hagenbuch) Wolfe. Maria was born in 1830, daughter of John Jr. (b. 1791) and Christina...
The Wolfes of Columbia County, Part 1
In my last article, I touched on the Wolf/Wolfe family when I researched John and Shirley Mae (Wolfe) Zisch. As mentioned, I used my paper records to trace Shirley Mae back to her great...
