


Genealogy
Family research or genealogy tries to answer the question of the own roots. Where do we come from? What was the economic and social environment in which our ancestors lived? What effects had the great political changes of the past 500 years on our ancestors or what have they benefited from? Were our ancestors righteous hard-working farmers? .. or craftsmen? .. rogues?
Many people dreamed of being a descendant of a knight and found only a shrub thief /tramp, which had been tied to the gallows. Honestly .. a customer had also made a long face when I had to tell him that his ancestors come from an old family of Knackerman and Hangman’s assistant. Nevertheless: actually, it is much more interesting if the ancestors were slightly different than the average, because only then they were on record, not as the boring ones.
I have specialized as a genealogist on the region of Emmental.