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Great-grandparents: Gantenbeins from Switzerland

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I have read that there was a terrible famine in Switzerland around 1900, resulting in the migration of many Swiss to America.  Houston seems an odd place to settle, but it was a swamp at the time.

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My grandmother was the youngest child.

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