The Beech Grove: Hagenbuch Family Newsletter
Since I was 13 years old I’ve always had in interest in our family history. Some folks tell me 13 is an early age to be making family trees and asking relatives what they...
This Week's Article From the Beech Grove
Music of Andreas Hagenbuch’s Time
Music can reveal a great deal about people and their culture. This is true whether those people are from the present or the past. Andreas Hagenbuch was born in 1711 in Lomersheim, Germany. He...
One Silver Dollar
As told to Mark Hagenbuch around 1963 by his great Uncle Percy and corroborated in 1972 by his father’s first cousin, Bruce Hagenbuch. Francis Eugene Hagenbuch (Uncle Gene) was the third child of Hiram...
Andreas Sails Aboard the Charming Nancy
1737 is an important year for the Hagenbuch family. It was the year Andreas Hagenbuch, his wife Maria Magdalena, and their one child landed in Philadelphia to begin a new life in the Americas....
Pronouncing Hagenbuch
As I have done many times when I have an appointment, I walked up to the receptionist’s desk and wrote my name on the pad – “Mark HAGENBUCH” (I print my last name and...
William Hagenbuch Stands Tall
Uprighting Headstones… A Family Responsibility Reader Alert: As in many posts dealing with genealogy, family lines will be listed. This may be confusing to some people, but it’s important to the understanding of family...
Story of the Buchbaum
Here is the story of the Buchbaum, as told by Dr. Mark O. Hagenbuch at the donation of a European beech tree, April 25, 2008. Long ago, in a place we now call Switzerland,...
About the Hagenbuch Family
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...
