Thank you for sharing this information for all of us... And a big thanks to all the volunteers as well! Betty -----Original Message----- From: Wolf Seelentag [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: AW: [SWITZ] Swiss geography > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. Oktober 2002 15:38 > > Would anyone be able to help me with the following: from the > years 1785 to about 1812, did the Canton of Aargau exist or > was it part of the Canton of Bern? I have been told that my > G-g-Grandfather Michael Huber was born in the Canton of > Aargau in 1788 but on one occasion someone listed it as > Bern. At any rate, I have all but given up for finding any info > about him without narrowing the area from which he came. > To complicate things, I have been told that the name Huber > is one of the most common names in Switzerland. > I would appreciate and info in reference to the Cantons. > Thank you You'll find basic info on several cantons starting from http://swiss.genealogy.net/kanton-m.htm and the answer to ypour particular question on http://swiss.genealogy.net/kant/agallg-e.htm#hist Unfortunately you are correct: Huber is one of the most common names in Switzerland - see http://swiss.genealogy.net/surcom-m.htm Again, unfortunately our "Swiss Surname Directory" is still not available to the public due to technical problems (caused by yahoo) - so here's the list of communities in Aargau, where Huber hold citizenship now (to be more accurate: in 1962) and since before 1800: Arni-Islisberg / Besenbüren / Boswil / Hägglingen / Hermetschwil-Staffeln / Hornussen / Jonen / Laufenburg / Mägenwil / Mellingen / Mülligen / Oberkulm / Oberlunkhofen / Oberwil AG / Reinach AG / Tägerig / Unterkulm / Unterlunkhofen / Wil AG / Windisch / Wohlenschwil. Let me use the occasion to point especially newcomers on Switzerland-L to the SwissGen pages, where you'll find first answers to many of your questions: SwissGen now consists of allmost 500 pages - so you may not find your way around at first easily. A good start will in such cases be the full text search feature on http://swiss.genealogy.net/search-m.htm For people familiar with SwissGen the announcements of new pages may be of interest: http://swiss.genealogy.net/news-m.htm where you can also suscribe te "swissgen-news", to be informed by e-mail about new pages. As described on this page, with some subscriptions problems with the confirmation have been expereinced (exclusively aol customers so far): should this happen, just send me an e-mail (as described). I hope many readers find SwissGen useful - if you do, you should be aware that this free service is provided with the help of some 30 volunteers worldwide. Best regards - Wolf __________________ Wolf Seelentag, Ph.D. Reherstr. 19 CH - 9016 St.Gallen +41 (0) 71 - 288 51 21 [email protected] ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== Going on vacation? Gone longer than 4 days? Go to http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CHE/SWITZERLAND.html to unsubscribe