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05a – Our Hiestands (Heystandts) – Refugees on the North Sea

05a - Our Hiestands (Heystandts) - Refugees in Friedrichstadt on the North Sea "Heystandt" was the way the Hollander-Dutch spelled our Hiestand name. The Nine Years War or the War of the Grand Alliance In 1689 Ibersheim and the entire Palatinate again became a hot war zone.  Five years after...
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05 – Where Henrich Hiestand Was Born – Ibersheim, Germany

05 - Ibersheim, Germany German Home-Village of Our Hiestands https://www.akpool.de/ The village of Ibersheim (pronounced, Ibers-heim ["ib" as in "crib"]) is situated on what historically was an unprotected floodplain on the left bank (west side of) the Rhine River, just below (north of) a sharp northeastward bend in the river,...
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04 – Swiss Anabaptists Flee to the Germany

04 - Our Swiss Ancestors Flee to Germany (Source: artuk.org) The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Paves the Way for Swiss Anabaptists to Find New Homes Almost as soon as the Swiss Brethren (Anabaptists/Mennonites) began to teach and practice the Biblical principles they were learning from studying the New Testament (1525...
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Books

Baughman Maps and Images

J. Ross Baughman's Maps and Images Just one of 85 pages of maps and images from J. Ross Baughman's Books - Many or most of which Ross drew himself Download This Resource Eighty-five Maps and Illustrations from the Origins of Swiss & Anabaptist Migrants: Collection of maps created by J....
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Videos

01-19-2021 Our Swiss Roots with Ross Baughman

Our Hiestand (Canton Zurich) Swiss Roots Video of the January 19, 2021 "Swiss Roots of the Hiestand/Haston Family" Zoom discussion with J. Ross Baughman as the expert guest. The full two hours of the meeting, focusing on the area south of the Zurich Sea where our Hiestand ancestors came from,...
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Books

Apart From This World

Free Book About Our Swiss Mennonite Roots: Apart From This World The Account of the Origins and Destinies of Various Swiss Mennonites Apart From The World: Ross Baughman, author.  An account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites who fled from their homelands in remote parts of Cantons...
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03 – Our Mennonite Roots

03 - What Do You Know About Our Mennonite Roots? Image from Christianity.com Rev. Samuel Hiestand's parents, grandparents, and several generations before were all Mennonites. "Samuel Hiestand" - Wikipedia This Samuel Hiestand was our Daniel Haston's nephew, son of Daniel's oldest brother Jacob. Huldrych (Ulrich) Zwingli You know about Martin...
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Lake Beneath the Crescent Moon

FREE Book About Our Swiss Homeland A Lake Beneath the Crescent Moon: Some of the history, legends and folkart from around Zurich ranging from prehistoric times through the 18th Century, along with the families thereabout named Bachman, Hiestand, Ringger & Strickler - 2000; 265 pages.  (28.6 MB) Download PDF If you enjoyed...
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02 – Hastons Rooted in Switzerland

02 - Our Haston Roots are in Switzerland For many years, even the most diligent researchers in the extended Daniel Haston family would hit the so-called genealogical “brick wall” with appearances of Daniel in western North Carolina, prior to the formation of the state of Tennessee.  They could establish their...
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01 – In Search of Our European Roots

01 - In Search of Our European Roots It looks like a hopeless task to trace back the family of Daniel, but let’s keep stumbling in the dark until we find something. Col. Howard H. Hasting, Sr. (1979) The desire of Daniel Haston’s descendants to know our European ethnicity did...
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Book Project – Heritage of Daniel Haston

Book Progress Update - December 2020 The work on this book actually began in the fall of 1999, when I started interacting with other people who were researching our Haston family history, visiting libraries, reading books, organizing a filing system, and developing www.DanielHaston.com.When I officially retired in 2017, the writing...
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Discovering Your Family History

Why Study Dead People? Or "Discovering Your Family's History" Podcast Interview with Wayne Haston https://youtu.be/1_RmldZXnY8DEBORAH JOHNSON, M.A., creator of Hero Mountain™® and past President of Los Angeles National Speakers Association, is an international award-winning music artist, author, speaker and National Media Commentator. Deborah provides principles to produce a successful second...
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Early Haston Researchers

Dave and Estelle Haston

David Rhea & Estelle Haston Daniel Haston Family History "Hall of Famers"David Rhea and Estelle (Suggs) Haston lived in Sparta, Tennessee (White County, TN).  You can see their birth and death dates on the Highland Cemetery tombstone below.  For 20+ years (mid-1960s until sometime in the late 1980s or so)...
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Early Haston Researchers

Colonel Howard H. Hasting, Sr.

Colonel Howard H. Hasting, Sr. 1950s-80s Daniel Haston Family Researcher A Daniel Haston History Hall of Famer Howard H. Hasting, Sr.March 23, 1905-April 1, 2003Oldest of six children. Graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point in 1928. Separated from the armed service in 1931, he practiced law in...
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