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Research

Everything the study has worked out so far, and how: 51 reports, about 170,000 words, each with its sources. Some of it is settled. The rest says so.

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The study at a glance

1 report

Every line on one page: who they were, where they lived, and how sure the study is of each link.

  1. Map of the Hegnauers: every line at a glance Every Hegnauer line on one page: where each family lived, how many records it has, and how sure the study is of it. · 13 min · 8 people

The name

6 reports

Where Hegnauer comes from, how the clerks spelled it, and the names that only look like it.

  1. Where the name Hegnauer comes from Hegnauer means the one from Hegnau: how a village near Zürich became a family name, and how sure the study is. · 25 min · 1 person
  2. The Hegnauer Name Study: about the project The Hegnauer Name Study on WikiTree: what it covers, how it works and how to join. · 12 min · 7 people
  3. Where the Hegnauers are: distribution and branches Where the Hegnauer name is found, which families the study has identified, and how they sit on WikiTree. · 3 min · 21 people
  4. Hegnau: the WikiTree chapter The village that gave the name: its history, its chapel and its tales, as written for WikiTree. · 18 min · 1 person
  5. Hegnau stories: Vom Guggu und andere wahre Hegnauer Geschichten (VOV, 2010) The book of Hegnau stories published in 2010: what it holds and how the study uses it. · 11 min
  6. Hegnauers in the Zürich tax books, 1366–1470 The first Hegnauers on record: the Zürich tax books of 1366 to 1470. · 4 min

Switzerland

11 reports

The parishes where the name was at home, register by register. Most of it is read from indexes so far; the originals are next, handwriting permitting.

  1. Switzerland: the Hegnauer families An overview of every Swiss Hegnauer family the study has reconstructed, parish by parish. · 9 min · 9 people
  2. Switzerland: origins and parishes The name through Switzerland: the village it comes from, the old families of Elgg and Seengen, and Igis. · 19 min · 28 people
  3. Switzerland: where the Hegnauers lived Where the Hegnauers lived in Switzerland: two core communities and the scattered later records. · 3 min · 2 people
  4. Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau: the Hegnauer families, 1590–1801 The Hegnauer households of Volketswil, the parish of Hegnau itself, from 1590 to 1801. · 18 min · 60 people
  5. Elgg, canton Zürich: the Hegnauer families, 1553–1875 The Hegnauer families of Elgg from 1553 to 1875: the town's oldest line, chained couple by couple through its registers. · 53 min · 60 people
  6. Igis, Graubünden: the Hegnauer family from 1744 to the emigrants The Hegnauer family of Igis from 1744 to the emigrants, household by household. · 15 min · 60 people
  7. Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and the Thurgau border Hegnauers in Uster, Wetzikon, the Zürich Oberland and along the Thurgau border. · 23 min · 60 people
  8. Seengen and the other Aargau Hegnauers Seengen and the other Hegnauers of canton Aargau. · 5 min · 11 people
  9. Swiss cities and other cantons: Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Zürich city, Luzern, and entries without a parish Hegnauers in Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, the city of Zürich and Luzern, and the entries with no parish. · 21 min · 60 people
  10. Central Switzerland (Luzern, Zug): the Hegnauer families, 1584–1739 The Catholic Hegnauer families of the Luzern Seetal and Zug, 1584–1739. · 9 min · 60 people
  11. Swiss Hegnauer families (reconstructed from indexed church records) The Swiss couples reconstructed from their children's baptisms, as the indexes give them. · 10 min · 7 people

From Igis to the Pacific

13 reports

One line followed from the first Hegnauer at Igis, married in 1715, to Missouri and the Pacific coast: the registers, the gazettes, the wives’ families, a war and a ship.

  1. Igis to Missouri, 1856 How Luzius Hegnauer took his family from Igis to Missouri in 1856: the gazette notice, the ship and the farm on the Gasconade. · 9 min · 9 people
  2. The Hegnauers in the Civil War Three men of the Igis family in the Union army: two bridge guards on the Pacific Railroad and a cavalryman with three years' service. · 27 min · 6 people
  3. Where did Jacob Hegnauer come from? Where the first Hegnauer at Igis came from: the search, the four new facts it found, and the best candidate. · 17 min · 5 people
  4. The brothers and sisters of Luzius Hegnauer The brothers and sisters of Luzius Hegnauer at Igis, as the registers give them. · 7 min · 15 people
  5. The deaths of Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet When and where Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet died: the search so far. · 39 min · 34 people
  6. The direct line in the registers The registers behind the direct line from Igis: which films hold the baptisms, marriages and burials, and what they say. · 17 min · 10 people
  7. The wives' families of the direct line The families of the wives of the direct line, searched in the registers. · 25 min · 5 people
  8. Illinois, Madison County: the Hirschi family and the 1866 marriage Susanna Hirschi's family in Madison County, Illinois, and her marriage to Leonhard Hegnauer in 1866. · 11 min · 7 people
  9. Amsoldingen, Reutigen and Thierachern registers: the Hirschi family Susanna Hirschi's family in the Bernese church registers of Amsoldingen, Reutigen and Thierachern, read on the page. · 14 min · 4 people
  10. The Bernese registers: the Hirschi, Stutzmann and Stocker families The Hirschi, Stutzmann and Stocker families in the Bern state archives' online registers: baptisms, marriages and burials. · 22 min · 6 people
  11. AncestryDNA review of the study owner's matches What the owner's DNA matches confirm about the paper trail, and what they leave open. · 5 min · 10 people
  12. The Hegnauers in the Civil War, and the road west (1856-1869) Luzius Hegnauer and his sons in the Civil War, and the family's road west from 1856 to 1869, from their own service records. · 51 min · 6 people
  13. The ship Chase, Havre to New York, 1856 The ship Chace, Le Havre to New York in 1856: the voyage that brought the Igis family to America. · 24 min · 8 people

America

16 reports

The Hegnauers who crossed the Atlantic, community by community, from Rochester to Oregon.

  1. The Americas: every record placed Every Hegnauer record from the Americas placed in its family: censuses, vital records, land and obituaries from New York to Oregon. · 9 min · 20 people
  2. Missouri (Gasconade, Bates, St. Clair, Jasper, Jackson Counties): Luzius Hegnauer's family Luzius Hegnauer's family in Missouri: Gasconade, Bates, St. Clair, Jasper and Jackson Counties. · 5 min · 34 people
  3. Illinois: Chicago (Cook County), Madison, Iroquois and Clinton Counties Hegnauers in Illinois: Chicago and Madison, Iroquois and Clinton Counties. · 3 min · 6 people
  4. Minnesota, Washington and Oregon Robert Lucius Hegnauer's family in Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest, and Christian Hegnauer's in Washington and Oregon. · 4 min · 17 people
  5. Peter Hegnauer's (Igis) American branch: Ohio (Columbus, Mansfield), Indiana, Minnesota, Chicago, New York Peter Hegnauer's branch from Igis in America: Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Chicago and New York. · 3 min · 11 people
  6. Buffalo, Erie County, New York: Frederick Edward Hegnauer's branch Frederick Edward Hegnauer's branch in Buffalo, New York, pieced together from land records and censuses. · 2 min
  7. Canada and Latin America The few Hegnauers found in Canada and Latin America, and what is known of each. · 1 min
  8. Canton, Massillon and North Canton, Stark County, Ohio: Rev. Leonard Samuel Hegnauer's family The Rev. Leonard Samuel Hegnauer's family in Canton, Massillon and North Canton, Ohio. · 4 min · 3 people
  9. Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio: Edward John Hegnauer (1901–1961) and his descendants Edward John Hegnauer of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and his family. · 3 min
  10. Missouri death certificates: abstracts Abstracts of the family's Missouri death certificates, from 1910 on. · 6 min · 9 people
  11. New Jersey: Newark (Essex County) and central New Jersey Hegnauers in Newark and central New Jersey. · 3 min
  12. New York City and other New York records outside Rochester Hegnauers in New York City, and elsewhere in the state outside Rochester. · 3 min · 1 person
  13. Other states: Indiana, California, Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Florida, Rhode Island, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Montana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Arizona and others Hegnauers found in the other states, from Indiana and California to Montana and New Hampshire. · 4 min · 9 people
  14. Rochester, Monroe County, New York: the Seengen (Aargau) family The Seengen family in Rochester, New York. · 12 min
  15. Washington death certificates: abstracts Abstracts of the family's Washington death certificates. · 9 min · 25 people
  16. Washington marriage records: abstracts Abstracts of the family's Washington marriage records. · 1 min · 4 people

Europe beyond Switzerland

2 reports

The name in Germany and the rest of Europe, including several families that turned out to be someone else entirely.

  1. Europe outside Switzerland Hegnauers in Germany, Austria, France and beyond, and the look-alike families that are not Hegnauers at all. · 3 min · 2 people
  2. Germany and the rest of Europe The families charted outside Switzerland: Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and the rest of Europe. · 7 min · 1 person

Newspapers

2 reports

Two long harvests of the Missouri papers, page by page. The articles themselves are in the newspaper room.

  1. Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet in the papers, 1856–1900 What the Missouri papers printed about Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet, 1856–1900. · 38 min · 14 people
  2. Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi in the papers, 1856–1925 Every newspaper item found for Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Hirschi, 1856–1925: politics, the bank, the farm and the family. · 79 min · 12 people

Files on individual people

30 files

Record surveys and document files kept for one person or one couple: every record viewed, what it says, and what other researchers have shared. Dry reading, and the backbone of the biographies.