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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 chair of this committee, Vanessa Warner.


Vanessa Warner

6498 Bostwick Rd.,

Union, ON  N0L 2L0

Phone: 519-755-5274

Email: vanessa.warner@rogers.com

 

​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/199791020?cfpid=262607082297

https://gw.geneanet.org/schurch2023?lang=en&lp=0

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.

 

Code H Lineage

If you are specifically interested in the Code H line, click here.

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        

2.    Conrad Grebel ON  

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.

 

Alan Leis is heading this up. If you would like to do a Y-DNA test please contact him at alanleis1@gmail.com.

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