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8-2006: Project start by Jörg Hohnloser
9-2006: identification of 350 individuals in 4 groups: "Tübingen branch" (direct ancestors of JH), Pforzheimer branch (direct ancestors to various Hohnlosers in the town of Pforzheim), various unassigned individuals in Germany and the US. Visits to archives in Knittlingen and Pforzheim, phone interviews, meetings with Hohnloser families alive, review of some key family documents.
Draft of first tree uniting all main Hohnloser clusters (Tübingen, Pforzheim, multiple families)
9-2006: Stefan Hohnloser joins project, visit to French archive (Strassburg), joint visits to Pforzheim Archive, detail work on tree updates
10-2006: Jörg Hohnloser tested (Genographic) as E3B
12-2006: Version 2.3 of the Family Tree uploaded to FTDNA with 288 Hohnlosers over 371 years
12-2006: Stefan Hohnloser tested (Genograophic) E3B
12-19-2006: We established the first connection with living US relatives and could map them all the way back to Michael Hohnloser (born 1635). We now proceed to contact historical societies in order to uncover new records which escape WWW searches
09-2007: First German Hahnloser comes back as genetically related to Hohnloser family
11-2007: Stefan Hohnloser finds archive information identifying Hahnlosers in the Swiss-German border region whose birthdate is in the late 15th century (Catholic priests). There is increasing evidence that Hahnloser/Hohnloser ancestors are German, not Swiss and escpaed from the Randegg region (near Konstanz) to the Swiss border region (probably as a result of the 30 year war)
11-2007 Jörg Hohnloser launches series of contacts with US and European Handloser and Handlos families, first 3 recruits for genetic testing
11-2007: first genetic test linking German Hohnloser with German Hahnloser
12-2007: first genetic test linking German Hohnlosers with US Handlosers
1-2008: first genetic test linking German Hohnlosers with German Handlosers
2-2008: identification of oldest records so far (1478, church archive Gailingen) with Burck(hart) Honloser, Vogt von Randegg.
7-22-2008: Stefan Hohnloser finds two indices with the oldest Honloser records, yet: a nun around 1450 and a Verena Honloser, which was a servant owned by Bishop of Constance, Burkard von Hewen and was handed on February 28 1394 to the abbot of Stein am Rhein. She was described as belging to the Kelnhof (probabyl a farm of the Bishop) in bohlingen, which is about 10 miles from Randegg on the German side.
9-2006: identification of 350 individuals in 4 groups: "Tübingen branch" (direct ancestors of JH), Pforzheimer branch (direct ancestors to various Hohnlosers in the town of Pforzheim), various unassigned individuals in Germany and the US. Visits to archives in Knittlingen and Pforzheim, phone interviews, meetings with Hohnloser families alive, review of some key family documents.
Draft of first tree uniting all main Hohnloser clusters (Tübingen, Pforzheim, multiple families)
9-2006: Stefan Hohnloser joins project, visit to French archive (Strassburg), joint visits to Pforzheim Archive, detail work on tree updates
10-2006: Jörg Hohnloser tested (Genographic) as E3B
12-2006: Version 2.3 of the Family Tree uploaded to FTDNA with 288 Hohnlosers over 371 years
12-2006: Stefan Hohnloser tested (Genograophic) E3B
12-19-2006: We established the first connection with living US relatives and could map them all the way back to Michael Hohnloser (born 1635). We now proceed to contact historical societies in order to uncover new records which escape WWW searches
09-2007: First German Hahnloser comes back as genetically related to Hohnloser family
11-2007: Stefan Hohnloser finds archive information identifying Hahnlosers in the Swiss-German border region whose birthdate is in the late 15th century (Catholic priests). There is increasing evidence that Hahnloser/Hohnloser ancestors are German, not Swiss and escpaed from the Randegg region (near Konstanz) to the Swiss border region (probably as a result of the 30 year war)
11-2007 Jörg Hohnloser launches series of contacts with US and European Handloser and Handlos families, first 3 recruits for genetic testing
11-2007: first genetic test linking German Hohnloser with German Hahnloser
12-2007: first genetic test linking German Hohnlosers with US Handlosers
1-2008: first genetic test linking German Hohnlosers with German Handlosers
2-2008: identification of oldest records so far (1478, church archive Gailingen) with Burck(hart) Honloser, Vogt von Randegg.
7-22-2008: Stefan Hohnloser finds two indices with the oldest Honloser records, yet: a nun around 1450 and a Verena Honloser, which was a servant owned by Bishop of Constance, Burkard von Hewen and was handed on February 28 1394 to the abbot of Stein am Rhein. She was described as belging to the Kelnhof (probabyl a farm of the Bishop) in bohlingen, which is about 10 miles from Randegg on the German side.