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

> 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]