FREE digital copy of “Table of Contents” and “Every Name Index” based on all newsletters published 1983-2017.
This is a vital resource for researchers and newsletter subscribers. Send your request to Cary Adams cavalleyboy@earthlink.net and he will email you a pdf version.
FAMILY RESEARCH RESOURCES
Our best resource for family research is the wonderful group of historians who make up the Historical Committee. Their names and contact information can be found by clicking on these words: Historical Committee Members (Family Research Committee).
The purpose of the Historical Committee is to assist cousins who are pursuing genealogical research of their family roots.
A Schürch genealogy database is available. See the links below.
There are quite a few books and articles to support your genealogical searches. Links are provided below.
We are fortunate to have three places where our most precious items are archived and stored in climate controlled environments. See the list below.
Many genealogy web sites are very useful to tap into. They are listed below.
Finding relatives through your DNA is a fascinating exercise. Thomas A Sherk has headed up this research helping many find which branch they fit into. Tom is stepping down from this role and Alan Leis is now administrating this project with Justin Houser. His contact information is as follows.
Email: alanleis1@gmail.com
The biannual newsletter keeps us informed of the latest family genealogical breakthroughs. If you do not receive it already, follow the links to sign up to get your own copies.
For more information on this committee and/or on finding one’s family roots, please contact the chairman of this committee, Stephen Shirk.
Stephen D. Shirk (H44)
5201 Old Hwy 2, Belleville, ON, Canada K8N 4Z4
Cell: 613-813-7524
Email: steve.shirk@yahoo.ca
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​​Schürch Family Database
Justin and a host of other historians have developed a Schürch database. The Schürch family database, in its most current form, is now online at two sites:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/196953347/family?cfpid=272558030198
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https://gw.geneanet.org/schurch2023?lang=en&lp=0
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A Listing of Books and Articles
FREE digital copy of “Table of Contents” and “Every Name Index” based on all newsletters published 1983-2022.
This is a vital resource for researchers and newsletter subscribers. Send your request to Cary Adams cavalleyboy@earthlink.net and he will email you a pdf version.
FREE digital copy of “Table of Contents” and “Every Name Index” based on all newsletters published 1983-2022.
This is a vital resource for researchers and newsletter subscribers. Send your request to Cary Adams cavalleyboy@earthlink.net and he will email you a pdf version.
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Code H Lineage
If you are specifically interested in the Code H line, click here.
Other Sites to Visit:
Ancestry.com
Schürchs in Chile
Christian C. Emig of France
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites
Find a Grave
Fort Erie Historical Museum
Genealogy.com
Geneanet
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario
MyFamily.com
National Archives Administration
Pennsylvania County Sites
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario
Reesor Family Connections
wc.rootsweb.com/~schurch122615
State and County Sites
Waterloo Historical Society
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Historical Archives
A number of resources related to our family history and genealogy, in the form of books and charts, are stored in three archive locations ...
1. Lancaster PA
3 . Fort Erie ON
DNA Analysis of the Schürch Family during the Last 10,000 Years
We hear in the news almost every day how DNA is determining guilt or innocence in crimes, finding genes involved in diseases and learning about extinct animals. DNA analysis is also becoming an important genealogy research tool. Tracing family history has in the past been limited to following family names, civil records, church records and other recorded information. This type of information can only take you back a few hundred years. With the advent of rapid DNA analysis methods and an understanding of how DNA is passed down from each male to his sons, grandsons, great-grandsons and so on permits extending our reach into the past to several thousand years.
Our Y-DNA project is currently on hold.