We were fortunate to be able to travel to the villages in Germany and Switzerland where our ancestors were born. We visited churches in Langenaubach, Breitscheid, Thalwil and Horgen.
The church in Langenaubach is now the town museum; our friend Rita arranged for a tour when we were there in 2008. We met the curator and talked about the archives. In Breitscheid the church had been restored, and the pastor related how they discovered the paintings in the chapel.
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| Langenaubach, Germany |
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| Breitscheid, Germany |
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| Chapel in Breitscheid church |
We had arranged a family reunion in Switzerland in 2008 during the same trip to Europe. Our group visited the churches in Thalwil and Oberrieden/Horgen, villages where the Staub and Leuthold families lived. We could imagine baptisms and marriages taking place in these churches even if they had been restored since the mid 1800s.
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| Church in Horgen, Switzerland |
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| Inside the chapel in Horgen |
*52 Ancestors: "At Worship"
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