The following video is my entry in the Ancestry.com Star of Your Family Story Contest. How do you get people interested about your story in under 2 minutes? This was my take. 25 Generations Although ...
I love storytelling. I love film. During my journey to actively chronicle the history of my ancestors, some of their stories have seemed very cinematic to me, their stories have dramatic weight, visu...
There have been many family trees created over the long recorded history of my ancestors. Some doubled as scroll genealogies, but most were the traditional vertical tree with heraldry. A number of ye...
In February of this year my business partner Michael Gaedeke of the Swiss Center Los Angeles had an idea about contacting the inventor of the popular Swiss trivia game Helvetiq, Hadi Barkat and propo...
I was interviewed for the Spring edition of SwissCommunity online newletter. The Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) devised and created SwissCommunity.org. Its aim is to strengthen the link ...
On NPR the other morning, I heard of someone sharing a famous authors work in 140 character tweets. The name of the author escapes me now, but I though the idea was a good one. Last week I started to...
eBay is turning into a wonderful resource for family documents, who knew? The latest find concerns again, Louis de Büren, Bernese Governor of Lausanne. The document ia a travel visa for the extended ...
I have followed the blog Newly Swissed for a while now. I have found it to be informative and fun. The site is described thusly: "Newly Swissed helps you stay up to date with trends in Switzerlan...
As I travel through Switzerland this week I have had many unique experiences. One was a private viewing of the Château of Oron in Western Switzerland. David de Büren was chief magistrate for Oron in ...
In my years of research I have often come across passages that mention the final resting place of certain ancestors as this or that Swiss Cathedral. These passages often date from the 18th century or...
A couple of weeks ago a received a surprise package from a cousin in France. She sent me a souvenir album that was said to have belonged to Germaine de Büren (1863-1931), a daughter of Henri de Büren...
Family research is like panning for gold, lots of time hunched over, not knowing when you might find a nugget. Some of my finds lately have come from unlikely sources. The latest gem was from eBay. I...
A number of months ago I received an email from documentary film director Victoria Bruce. She found my Grandfathers Central & South American film footage on my YouTube channel and&...
I like finding patterns in history. Generational linkages have always been fascinating to me. In many ways we all are representations of generational threads, your mothers eyes, your grandmothers lau...
I came across the following image today and was thoroughly puzzled. It is the de Büren ancestral family Castle of Vaumarcus, but in miniature. I did not know if this was for an event at the castle or...
A small pencil sketch of a cat has adorned a desk at my parents home ever since my childhood. The French inscription says "Likeness of Pupi. Sunday evening, Castle of Vaumarcus, October 23, ...
My Swiss grandfather Henri was born on the family ranch of “La Elisa” in Argentina in 1900. He would later emigrate to the United States in 1923 from Switzerland where the family had gone for his sch...
Many of my ancestors were artists. I have profiled some of them on this blog; Jeanne de Büren, Albert de Büren, Philippe de Büren and Natalie de Büren to name a few. Among some old family books I fou...
Suisse Magazine, a French-language publication on Switzerland wrote a small story on me in their latest issue. The magazines editor asked the Museum of the Swiss Abroad in Geneva for insight on Swiss...
My Swiss heritage means a great deal to me. Its importance has deepened over time as I become more familiar with the details of my lineage. My interest in Swiss history and Swiss immigration however ...
In the most recent Lettre de Penthes, the journal of the Foundation for the History of the Swiss Abroad, I wrote a small article about my artist, adventurer and explorer Great-Great-Grandfather, Henr...
My great-aunt Natalie de Büren was a passionate Swiss artist and in previous posts I have featured examples of her sculpture and drawings. After her passing in 1986 my father was lucky enough to secu...
Of the many themes that endure from generation to generation in the de Büren family, love of the natural world is an important one. While my family were large land owners for many generations, the sc...
On April 8th I will showcase five generations of family art as well as give a presentation on my family heritage at the Beverly Hills Womens Club. I am honored that club president Claudia Deutsch off...
Having detailed family archives are indispensable when it comes to discovering personal historical narrative but it is also instructive for a broader understanding of family history.For many years th...
The former ancestral home of the de Buren family, the Château de Vaumarcus has since the 1980s been the headquarters for many Swiss firms. One company that has called Vaumarcus home since 2007 is the...
One of the reasons I went on my recent trip to Switzerland was to attend an event dear to my ancestors. The event was the Rüeblimahl held at the one of the medieval guilds of Bern, the Metzgern Zunft...
While conducting some research I came accross the site of talented French Artist Stéphanie Miguet who specializes in découpages or paper cutting. I found her site because she was featured in a small ...
Günther de Büren was the only son of Edouard de Büren (1853-1940) and Dorothée de Diesbach (1860-1940). His father was a lawyer and property manager in Bern. He was born in Bern in 1889 and would mar...
The following story is taken from La Béroche: recherches historiques sur la paroisse de Saint-Aubin By Fritz Chabloz. It describes how in 1700, Baron Jean-Charles de Büren of Vaumarcus who was at the...
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