A Bassler Genealogy
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ancestry and many other associated lines now for over 20 years. My work
used to require some travel so I was lucky enough to have the opportunity
to visit small town halls, county clerk offices and forgotten cemetaries
to pick up little tid-bits over the years. My main Focus of course has
always been the Basslers. My Bassler line is now ALL in Virginia. I've
positively traced this Bassler line back to the early 1700's in Manheim
Township, Lancaster, Pennsyvania. Prior to that, I have some theories
but no proof. The story goes that they came from Germany, or passed through
it, on their way from Basil, Switzerland. Prior to that, the name was
Bosilier, from France in the 1500's. But I have yet to see any documentation
on it.
In this country, these Bassler
lines are intertwined with Matthews, Provance and Laird, and even further
back, Twining in the 1600's in Massachusetts.
Other names you'll find in these
pages are Bossler, Briner and Bryner, Province and Province and Hicks.
Bassler
/Surname Index (Gene Starks GED2HTML 3.6)
J. Harry Bassler - my great grandfather, about 1930?
