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Sundgau Map
    My GRUNTZ ancestors were from the Sundgau region of Alsace. The earliest known generation lived in Magstatt le Haut. Subsequent generations lived in Franken and Willer.

    Sundgau History
    Sundgau Today

          Other Alsation surnames in my ancestry include: ALLEMANIN, BAÜMLIN, DIETSCH, FAEBRE, HILL, OHR, RIEKERT, ROSENBLATT & SCHMITT

    MY ALSATION IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS
         GRUNTZ FAMILY:
         My great great grandfather, Louis Gruntz (b. 1825 in Franken), married Catherine Hill and had 5 children, Emilie, Louis Joseph, Laurent, Catherine, & Agnis.    Louis' wife, Catherine, and daughter, Agnis, died during childbirth in 1868.    Louis then married Anna Hattstatt and had 3 children, Rose, Leon, and Alphonse.    In 1873, Louis and Anna emmigrated to New Orleans, LA with Louis Joseph, Emilie, Laurent, Catherine,(children of his first marriage) and Rose and Leon (Alphonse was born in New Orleans).     Louis was a blacksmith in Alsace and practiced his trade in New Orleans also.     Louis Joseph Gruntz, my great grandfather, married Emma Ohr.

    George E. Ohr, the Mad Potter of Biloxi     OHR FAMILY:
         My great great great grandfather, John George Ohr, also an Alsation blacksmith, emmigrated to the United States in 1850, with his wife and only son George.    John and his wife both died in New Orleans in 1852.    In 1853 George met Johanna Wiedman, from Württemburg Germany, and in 1854 they married in New Orleans, LA.; shortly thereafter George and Johanna moved to Biloxi, MS.     They had five children, Augustus, Louisa, Mina, George E. Ohr, and my great grandmother, Emma.     Emma's brother, George, moved to New Orleans in his early twenties and became a potter.    His works are valuable today and he achieved notoriety in his day and today as the Mad Potter of Biloxi. According to family tradition, George and my great grandfather, Louis Joseph Gruntz, roomed at the same boarding house in New Orleans.     Both being of Alsatian lineage, they became friends; and, as a result Louis met Emma and the rest is history.




Ennenda Crest

          My Swiss ancestry is through one of my maternal great great grandmothers, ANNA JENNY, from the village of Ennenda in Canton Glarus.


    Kanton Glarus Crest



    Jenny Family Crest

               Most of the genealogy research for Glarus is based upon the Genealogiewerk by J. J. Kubly-Müller housed in the Landesarchiv des Kanton Glarus. My research into my Jenny ancestors has centered around the Jenny Family (Die Jenny - Familien im Kanton Glarus) by Dr. Adolph Jenny in 1929. FHL Film No. 0823800.

    Other Resource Materials

    Elmer Family Crest The Elmer Family
    (Die Elmer -
    Etymologien -
    Genealogien)
    by Martin Ellmer.    		Hösli Family CrestThe Hösli Family
    of Glarus, Switzerland;
    Genealogical research
    by Julius Billiter
    FHL Film No. 0128059.
    Marti Family Crest The Marti Family of Glarus
    Engi-Matt, Elm, Bilten, Mollis,
    Näfels, and Niederurnen;
    Genealogical research
    by Julius Billiter.
    FHL Film No. 1183595    		Trümpy Family CrestLandesarchiv
    des Kanton Glarus
    records.
    Tschudi Family CrestHistory and Genealogy of the Judy-Judah-Tschudy-Tschudin-
    Tschudi-Schudi Family of America and Switzerland, by Baron Marion Pomeroy Carlock (von Judy-Tschudy), FHL Film No. 1035755; Genealogy of Verena Tschudi; FHL Film No. 0823820.    		Zweifel Family CrestThe Zweifel Family of Linthal, Glarus, Haslen, Bilten, and Kerenzen; FHL Film No. 1183595.

    Other Glarus surnames in my ancestral line:

    AEBLI, BECKER, BLUMER, BRUNNER, DÜRST, ELSINER, FREULER, GALLATTI, GLARNER, HUESSI, HOFMANN, JEGERLEHNER, KNOBEL, LEUZINGER, MÜLLER, OERTLI, PFÄNDLER, SCHÄFER, SCHMIDT, SONTAG, STÜSSI, VOGEL, VÖGELI, WALCHER, ZOLLIGER and ZWICKY.


    Canton Glarus Family Histories & Genealogy on the Internet

    Beglinger Family      Freuler Family

    Geiger Family      Leuzinger Family      Trümpy Family

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