User:JaneFairchild/sandbox

Jane Schweizer Fairchild - I need help to connect to family line from Switzerland. My maiden name was Schweizer. However when I searched the original Archives at the Court House of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado where my Grandfather Rudolph Schweizer had homesteaded land, his name he wrote was Schweitzer (so I grew up with missing the t in my name). We did not know anything of Grandfather for after his wife, Maria Zitterlie Schweitzer died when my father was 8 years old, my Grandfather gave all his children away so my father was a farm hand in Dow City Iowa at the age of 8 years old. He knew nothing of Grandfather and Grandmother at all. My Grandfather Schweitzer, I have a picture of him and he looks just like Adolph Schweitzer, except Grandfather is holding my brother when he was about 2 years old. All I know about my Grandfather Rudolph Schweitzer is that they immigrated from Switzerland and he had a sister over there named Lydia Zitterlie Lang (Married name) raised by my Great Grandparents in Switzerland. I use to be a pen pal of her daughter, Rhea Lang, but lost contact after she married a man from London and she became a school teacher. All I know is her brother, Candid Lang had been a a down hill Skier with the Olympics during the 1950 period. Wish I could find out more and get reconnected with my cousin Rhea. Help me if you can. I so much want to learn about my Grandparents, but know nothing. 18:23, 15 December 2016 (UTC)JaneFairchild (talk)