Vortrag bei der Rätischen Vereinigung für Familienforschung

Käthi Aebli-Tönz: They chose the path across the ocean

For our speaker, the visit from Oklahoma was the beginning of genealogy. In her parents' house, she found old letters from Matthias Tönz, who was born in Seewis in 1853 and emigrated to America in 1871. In his letters we learn how he fared in America for thirty years and how he lived. Furthermore, the speaker will give us an insight into your family tree of the Tönz family and your relatives in America. She still maintains contact with her relatives overseas today and since this summer her son Roger Aebli has also been at home in New York and reports from the States for SRF.