OS Oberholzer of Switzerland Europe Line
Descendants of Oberholz Switzerland 2018 by Overholser Family Association compiling editor Dennis L Oberholtzer With ties to JL, SL, JF, AO, MC, MT, ML, & HJ Families in America. Possible tie to Christian Oberholtzer of South Africa & MV. Descendants of Oberholz Switzerland Page 1 Descendants of Oberholz Switzerland By Dennis L Oberholtzer, 2018 The Overholser Family Association began in 1906 as a family gathering in Terre Hill, in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Within the first decade there were people from several distant states coming to the Reunion in hope of finding their root origins. It was not until the 1980's that we were able to connect our heritage across the Atlantic Ocean to Germany, and then to Switzerland. Our first published book, The Oberholtzer Book, written by Barbara B Ford, with an introduction by Will Overholtzer, tabulated the first five generations in America, with ties to the Oberholz Homestead in the Canton of Zürich. But the only true connection was through name association. We had no direct family line connecting the Protestant Family living across the valley with the earlier homestead in the village of Oberholz. This has now been resolved! Over the past four decades, with the help of Rosy Oberholzer from the Inn at Oberholz, and especially John L Overholt of Virginia, along with many others, I have been able to confirm direct ties. The Swiss family line is shown here, and we have them connected to this same lineage. Barbara B Ford organized The Oberholtzer Book by using a two letter code for each immigrant, or earliest known member of a family line.
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