Baur Branches

 Kent Gardiner has done so much on his blog.   GatheringGardiners.blogspot.com.   He has authorized us to use whatever we would like to help us.    He has done an amazing job of collecting and putting together a lot of important and interesting information.    We join his group through the Sidler line

 Emma and Julius Billeter Books Julius Billeter, Genealogists Emma Bachman Scholl:  In January 1921, mother took bronchial pneumonia. One day, she said to me, "Emma, do you know the greatest regret I have?' I said, "No, mother." She said, "It is because I haven't done the temple work for my dead." I said, "Mother, I don't know anything about temple work, and I am married out of the church and have a foot in the grave. But, If you will help me, I will see what I can do."  The last week in January we took her in an ambulance to a small sanitarium on west 7th Street (Los Angeles) and hired a special nurse for her. Her death was a great loss to me and I felt very lonely. I continued to feel more lonely as time went on. Mother told me to give all her things and money she had in the bank to Audrey. But I used all the money she had left later to secure the names of 4,000 of her dead ancestors, which Julius Billeter got for $225 in 1922. Then I se...

 Notes: It is generally accepted by researchers in Switzerland that the name Ottenbach came from an Allemanic man named "Otto" who lived in the area. The word Bach means a creek; brook; or a rivulet. Since the River Reuss is the distinguishing feature of the community: Otto's Bach, or Ottenbach. The name Sidler was spelled Siedler but in modern times is spelled Sidler. Billeter wisely standardized the spelling of Sidler. This is important for ease of computer searching. There are many spellings of Jacob as well but Jakob or Jacob have become the standard. The earliest Sidler in Ottenbach who Julius Billeter found goes back to Johannes Sidler born 1568. They and had 10 children!