Introduction
"We are the chosen. In each family, there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the famliy story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe."
I have been dealing with the families from Glarus for many years and I am searching especially for the descendants of the emigrants from Glarus who left the country mainly in the middle of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. Due to these years of research I was able to build up a database with more than 210'000 persons. This allows me on the one hand to show the emigration history of the Glarus emigrants and on the other hand to prove the roots of their descendants. I have prepared a Glarus Family Tree that goes back to the beginnings of church records in the canton (state) of Glarus that means about back to the 16th century.
Numerous inquiries, especially from America, have led me to go beyond the mere creation of family trees and to gather further information about the history of the Canton of Glarus and its families. Finally, the website should also serve to provide the interested genealogist with numerous genealogical topics, links and download possibilities, and descendants of emigrated Glarners should the website also be a help in preparing a visit to the morst beautiful canton, its museums, archives, hotels and restaurants.
Dive in and explore the numerous information about Glarus and its families. The following topics are available:
New on the Website
and last modified
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05/10/2019 I have created an introduction to the website and added an impressum and a privacy policy
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31/10/2019 A new Blog about Elsy Leuzinger the director of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich
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08/11/2019 A new Site about the Economic History of Glarus is added
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23/11/2019 The Stuessy Family is now described
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24/11/2019 Social Pyramid in the Middle Ages
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26/12/2019 A list with all Landammänner and a description of the Glarus Government
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30/12/2019 New article about life expectancy and diseases in Glarus
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04/01/2020 From where do you get the information about birth, marriage and death in Glarus?
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23/02/2020 A Russian Colonel inherits 1954 the Glarus Alp Oberblegi
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23/03/2020 A Glossary with the most important terms used in Glarus genealogy (Update)
The translation into the French language is currently in progress.
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