The Guenther family appears to have originated in Switzerland. Members of the family converted to the Anabaptist movement and were forced to flee first to Moravia and later to the valley of the Vistula in Poland and west Prussia. Eventually members of the family became Mennonites and moved to the Ukraine where a number of Germans were settling. One of the Guenthers to move there was Franz Günther (1827-1900) who married Maria Warkentin and was the...

The ancestry of the Günther family. The family came from Möhringen, Baden, Germany where they were involved in the weaving and bleaching trade. They are descended from the counts of Württemberg. The family came into England where they were doctors and scientists. Includes Andreä, McIntosh, Nagel, Planer, Scholssberger, Urlsperger, von Karpfen, and other related families.

Martin Hauck, son of Martin Hauck and Barbara Sonnenberger, was born 10 February 1683 in Wessingen, Hohenzollern. He married Anna Maria Kunz, daughter of Georg Kunz and Eva Scherer, in 1712. They had eight children. Many of their descendants immigrated to America.

The story of the Hagedorns, a German-American family, whose divided loyalties between the two countries led the author to reject the German culture.