Tracing New Glarus Roots All the Way Back To Glarus – And Beyond
A Switzerland-based genealogy project is reconnecting New Glarus families to their 19th-century roots in Canton Glarus, mapping hundreds of thousands of descendants and tracing how Swiss emigrants spread across Wisconsin and the Midwest.
Tracing New Glarus Roots All the Way Back To Glarus – And Beyond
For many New Glarus families, the story of how their ancestors crossed the Atlantic in the mid-1800s is part of local memory. But quietly, across the ocean in Switzerland — the same homeland from which so many early New Glarus settlers once departed — one man has been working for years to stitch those stories into a single, enormous family tree that connects Canton Glarus to the rest of the world, including New Glarus, Wisconsin.
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