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Leuenberger Project
1. A well-researched Leuenberger tree involving my mother with place of origin Ursenbach Bern (BE) Switzerland (CH) was done by my first cousin Heidi Dohmen-Leuenberger and goes back to a Jakob Leuenberger (1784-1834), married to Lucia Lüthi (1787-1843). It could be Andreas (1785-1634) married to the same Lucia Lüthi (1787-1843) according to FamilyResearch.org (FSO). FSO also provided one more generation i.e. a Jakob Leuenberger (1741-1813) married to Maria Krähenbühl (1763-1829).
2. A well-researched Leuenberger tree, also with place of origin Ursenbach BE CH, starts with Jakob Leuenberger (1941) who was a colleague of mine at Kantonsschule Aarau CH and ends with a Hans Leuenberger (c.1650-1731, married to Verena Steiner). The research was done by Regina M. Heiniger-Leuenberger and relatives and was related to letters from her great-grandmother Regina which led to the publication of a 1999 Chronos book titled: 'Meine Vielgeliebten; Briefe der Regina Leuenberger-Sommer (1848 - 1921) an Ihre Kinder".
3. Using the available data I established a possible 5th cousin relationship between my Kantonsschule colleague and myself by using two placeholders in my Geni.com tree. It did not quite fit and additional data provided by FSO indicated that this could not be correct and the relationship had to be 6th cousin of higher. Thus I introduced a third placeholder. The first goal of this project is to establish the exact relationship.
Answer: The common ancestor must be more than 11 generations back. I doubt that data farther back is available.
4. The wife of an ETH Zurich (university) colleague has a Leuenberger ancestor also with Ursenbach BE CH place of origin. This was her 2xgreat-grandfather Friedrich Leuenberger (born ca. 1834). His daughter (great-grandmother) was Elisabeth (b. ca. 1860). The daughter of Elisabeth (grandmother) was Maria Elisabeth Von Wartburg (b. 5 June 1884 in Ursenbach BE CH). This was entered in Geni.com as a Branch, a new available option which does not require placeholders to establish a possible connection. Hopefully this will provide Smart Matches to grow this tree. The second goal of this project is to establish a connection with the trees described in 1. and 2. above.
5. Niklaus Leuenberger (17 Jul 1615 - 27 Aug 1653 of Rüderswil BE CH; second marriage with Eva Stucki) was one of the leaders in the farmer's revolt of 1653 in the Emmenthal, Canton Bern (BE), Switzerland (CH). He was beheaded and quartered in Bern on 27 Aug 1653. I have data for his siblings and children from 'Webtrees'. His father was Hans (1586) and Niklaus had several brothers who did not die in childhood (Ulrich 1611, Alexander 1634, Peter 1636). I know of two descendants born ca. 200 years later thus a tree must exist. They are Jakob (1823-1871) and half-brother Rudolf (1830-1908) from 'FamilienNamenBuch der Schweiz' . Their father was Christian. (http://kunden.eye.ch/swissgen/famnam-m.htm, http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/famn/index.php). The third goal of this project is to establish a connection with the tree described in 1. and 2. above.
Answer: The farmer leader Niklaus Leuenberger (1615-1653) from Rüderswil lived at the same time as my 9G ancestor Peter Leuenberger (1 of 11) Sep 3, 1657 - d.; L4N3-S51 b. Dürrenroth BE d. ? and my school collegues's 10G ancestor Joseph Leuenberger (1 of 13) 24 May 1611 - d; KCSR-XYJ b. Rohrbach BE d. ?. Our ancestors were already in Dürrenroth resp. Rohrbach before they established themselves in Ursenbach. So the peasant leader can certainly not be our ancestor. A possible common ancestor must therefore be much further back. I doubt that data farther back is available.