IMG_7974The Widmers hail from Altnau, Kreuzlingen District, Thurgau, Switzerland. This is on Lake Konstance.  It is a very small (pop. circa 2,000) and very old (first mentioned in 787). It is a Swiss National Heritage site. Sometime around the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1848, the family moved to Barbelroth, Germany, near the border with Alsace.

If you are interested in reading the descendants, as we know them, of  Hans Wittmer b. about 1620 in Altnau and his wife, Anna Pejerin, click their names.

To learn about my 4th great grandmother, Barbe Wittmer,who married Valentin Rupp,the farmer,weaver from Oberhoffen-les-Wissembourg, and had 3 daughters in Oberhoffen, please click her name.