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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

David Rhea and Estelle Suggs 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...

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...