https://vitter.org/familytree/histories/WeaverWay.php

Hi, my name is Sharon Weaver Vitter (email address sharon.vitter@gmail.com <jeffvitter@gmail.com>), and I’m writing to ask for some help in resolving some issues in my lineage regarding the ancestors of Jacob Joachim Weaver and Magdalena Oberholtzer in Switzerland. My 4th great grandfather Jacob Joachim Weaver (8 June 1748–16 November 1820) was born in 1758 in Switzerland. In 1767, Jacob emigrated to Philadelphia from Rotterdam on the ship Sally. He married Magdalena Oberholtzer from Lancaster County around 1773. They then made their way to Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where the family settled. Succeeding generations moved first to Holmes County, Ohio and then to Miami County, Kansas, where I was born. Some branches remained in Holmes County. Jacob Joachim Weaver's great-grandson Martin S. Weaver (my great grandfather) was born in Holmes County, Ohio and was the first settler of the Weaver family to settle in Kansas. I have Jacob Weaver’s parents as being Johann Heinrich Weaver (1703–1755) and Anna Gertrude Sasse (1707–1760), both born in Zurich and died in Pennsylvania. Some online genealogies have Johann Heinrich’s parents as John Weaver and Elizabeth Cooke, but that doesn’t seem possible since they seem to have been born in Virginia. I have Magdalena Oberholtzer’s parents as Jacob Oberholtzer (1698–1760) and Barbara Kilhefer (1706–1790) from Pfalz, Warburg, Hoxter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, respectively, and dying in Lancaster County and Bucks County, respectively. I can’t find any relation between our Weaver family and the huge Weber/Weaver clan of Weaverland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Jageli Heinrich Weber (Jakob Henry Weber, January 1688–25 January 1747) and his wife Anna Cecelia Bauman (1703–11 February 1777) are some of the founders of the Lancaster County clan; they emigrated from Rotterdam to Philadelphia sometime in the range 1710–1717 and settled in Lancaster County. They are well documented on the web, e.g., at FindaGrave.com <http://findagrave.com/>. It’s possible they are related to my Weaver branch from back in Switzerland, but we don't know currently of any relation. All were Mennonites. Any help you can provide about Jacob Joachim Weaver’s and Magdalena Oberholtzer’s further ancestors in Europe would be welcome, especially if we can connect them somehow to the Weber/Weaver clan of Lancaster County. And any other info you have for our family tree, including about the younger generations, would be most welcome. I also have an extensive Kauffman line of ancestors that I’ll send a note about in a separate message. Our family tree is reachable via vitter.org <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitter.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7CTroye.Kauffman%40amdocs.com%7C1e8add716ffb4022166808d7e7e61d18%7Cc8eca3ca127646d59d9da0f2a028920f%7C0%7C0%7C637232847848607467&sdata=CIoFtH4WlAa%2FPoER9k1yCJyuq10dvyDF1BUYAHe9%2BVs%3D&reserved=0> and currently has a little over 53K individuals in it. It also resides on Ancestry.com <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fancestry.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7CTroye.Kauffman%40amdocs.com%7C1e8add716ffb4022166808d7e7e61d18%7Cc8eca3ca127646d59d9da0f2a028920f%7C0%7C0%7C637232847848617462&sdata=3qDrrHZvmlKLOQxvyiwBGozJCV2heKK15oQMX5SodV8%3D&reserved=0> under my husband's (JeffreyVitter) account. The vitter.org site has lots of other information about our family, including a couple dozen histories we wrote on the Relativity Research page. For example, here is a short history about Jacob Weaver and his emigration to the USA: https://vitter.org/familytree/histories/WeaverWay.php Thank you Sharon Weaver Vitter sharon.vitter@gmail.com P.S. And thank you to the SAGA team for getting the list-server up and working again! -- Sharon W. Vitter Sharon.Vitter@gmail.com (979) 587-9900