Family History Friday - Aunt Lillian's Wedding Parts 6, 7 & 8

The finale!

Part 1 here
Part 2 here
Parts 3, 4 and 5 here



Narrator: Father Rehack now recites the Preface

[Father chanting in Latin, with responses from people]

[Church bells chiming, organ music and singing follows.]


Narrator: Mrs. Lebach now sings "Panis Angelicus"

Panis angelicus
fit panis hominum;
Dat panis cœlicus
figuris terminum:
O res mirabilis!
Manducat Dominum
Pauper, Pauper, servus et humilis.

Panis angelicus
fit panis hominum;
Dat panis cœlicus
figuris terminum:
O res mirabilis!
Manducat Dominum
Pauper, Pauper, servus et humilis.
Pauper, Pauper, servus et humilis.

Translation:

Bread of the Angels
Is made bread for mankind;

Gifted bread of Heaven
Of all imaginings the end;
Oh, thing miraculous!
This body of God will nourish
the poor, the poor, the servile, and the humble.
the poor, the poor, the servile, and the humble.


[Father chanting with organ soft in background.]

[Father softer now while organ continues and Mrs. Lebach singly softly. Blessing the couple?]

[Organ music continues]

[Organ music rises, playing the Wedding March.]

Narrator: And so is ratified the wedding of Miss Lillian Zoldak to Mr. John Krizansky on this Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 1949, at St. Benedicts Church in Cleveland, Ohio, by Father Leo Rehack. The bridal party will attend the wedding breakfast at Owen's Plantation, and this afternoon at 3 o'clock a reception for 250 guests will be held at 2816 Woodhill Road.

The Wedding Breakfast
The Bride and Groom are at the head of the table on the right
The Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids on the the Bride's right
next to Father Leo

About the Wedding Breakfast: "We had three tables: Mom's for my side; John's Mother's, Mary Krizansky, for his side; and the wedding party in the center. (At the center table:) Father Leo, Pastor of St. Benedict's, who married us, my sisters, Aunt Eleanore and Uncle Frank (Zoldak). Father Benedict was next to my husband. Mom's table (seen on left in photo above): Louis and Annie Baylog, good friends of my Mom's, Aunt Sophie, Ethel & Ed Seman, Ann & George Draeger, our friends." - Aunt Lillian 

Family History Friday - Aunt Lillian's Wedding Parts 3, 4 & 5

Are you ready for the next parts of the wedding? Father Leo sounds a bit like he has a mouth full of marbles during parts of these, so if you're reading along in the transcript while listening, please recommend any edits you hear differently than I did!

Part 1 here
Part 2 here


Transcription:

And because these words involve such solemn vows as these, it is most fitting that to risk the security of unwed life upon the great risk of love's self-sacrifice. And so to begin your married life by the voluntary and complete surrender of your individual lives in the interest of that deeper and wider life which you are to have in common. Henceforth you will have value in each other. You will be one in mind, one in heart, and one in the senses. Whatever sacrifice you may be asked or be required to make to preserve this common life always make them generously. Sacrifice can be made to seem irksome but love can make it easy. And perfect love can make it a joy. We are willing to give in proportion to love. And when love is perfect a sacrifice is complete. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son ... for our salvation. Greater love than this no man has. That a man lay down his life for his friends.

No greater blessing can come to your married life than with pure conjugal love, loyal and true to the end. May then this love with which you join your hands and hearts today never fail but grow deeper and stronger as the years go on. And with true love being unselfish and a perfect sacrifice guide your every action you can expect the greatest measure of perfect happiness that may be allotted to man in this gated? theatre. The rest is in the hands of God as you kneel before him?

lifelong support of His ?? and the holy sacrament which you now are going to receive

Father: John Krizansky will thou take Lillian Zoldak, here present, for your lawful wife, according to the light of our holy Mother, the Church? Say "I will."

John K: I will.

Father: Lillian Zoldak, will thou take John Krizansky, here present, for your lawful husband, according to the light of our holy Mother, the Church? Say "I will."

Lillian: I will.

[Vows, repeated after Father with pauses where marked]

I, John Krizansky, /take thee, /Lillian /Zoldak /for my lawful /wife /to have /and to hold /from this day forward /for better /for worse /for richer /for poorer /in sickness /and in health /until death /do us part /so help me God.

I, Lillian Zoldak, /take thee, /John Krizansky /for my lawful /husband /to have /and to hold /from this day forward /for better /for worse /for richer /for poorer /in sickness /and in health /until death /do us part /so help me God.

[Latin marriage words and what sounds like incense]

[Father singing in Latin]



John (repeating after Father): With this ring /I thee wed /And I pledge /unto thee /my troth

[Father chanting/singing in Latin. Response from what sounds like a single person - blessing of the ring?]

John (repeating after Father): So help me God, / the Blessed /and Immaculate / Virgin Mary, /and all the Saints /in Heaven /that I, John /that I, John /do really love /Lillian /and loving her /I take her /for my lawful /wife /according to the commandments /of God /and the custom /of the Catholic Church /that I will never /forsake her /until her /or my death /in any /adversity /so help me God

Lillian (repeating after Father): So help me God, / the Blessed /and Immaculate / Virgin Mary, /and all the Saints /in Heaven /that I, Lillian /do really love /John /and loving him /I take him /for my lawful /husband /according /to the commandments /of God /and the custom /of the Catholic Church /that I will never /forsake him /until his /or my death /in any /adversity /so help me God

[Father: speaking in Latin, blessing the couple?]


[Music and church bells and more music]

Narrator: Mrs. Lebach now sings "Ave Maria"

Ave Maria, Ave Maria
Ave Maria, gratia plena.
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus,
Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris,
Ventris tui, Jesus.
Ave Maria.

John and Lillian's 25th Anniversary, 1974
From left to right: Grandma Zoldak, Rosemarie, Ronnie Rendessy, Margaret,
Lillian, John, Florence, Paul Rendessy, John Z.

Family History Friday - Aunt Lillian's Wedding Part 2

On November 24th, 1949, my father's eldest sister, Lillian, married her husband, John. The event was recorded for posterity. Recently converted to digital audio by my cousin, Greg, here is the second in a series of 8 original 78 albums.

See Part 1 here


Transcription:

Now Mrs. Steven Layback accompanied at the organ by Mr. Thomas Raynak sings "On This Day, Oh Beautiful Mother."

On this day, O beautiful Mother,
On this day we give thee our love.
Near the, Madonna, fondly we hover,
Trusting thy gentle care to prove.

On this day we ask to share,
Dearest Mother, thy sweet care;
Aid us ere our feet astray
Wander from thy guiding way.

On this day, O beautiful Mother,
On this day we give thee our love.
Near the, Madonna, fondly we hover,
Trusting thy gentle care to prove.

The bride now returns to the entrance of the sanctuary where the groom awaits her. Together they mount the sanctuary steps and kneel before the altar. Father Rehack is about to begin the ceremony.

Father: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen. My dear friends, you are about to enter a union which is most sacred and most serious. Most sacred because it is established by God Himself. Most serious because it binds you together for life. A relationship so close and so intimate that it will bind you for all future. That future with hopes and disappointments, with successes and with failures, with pleasures and with pains. With joys and with sorrows. hidden from your eyes. These elements are mingled in every life and are to be expected in your own. And so not knowing what is before you, you take each other for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health until death. Truly then these words are most serious. It is a beautiful tribute to the amount of faith in each other that's recognizing the full importance and nevertheless being willing and ready to pronounce that.

  I believe this is the wedding location. The "new" St. Benedict's opened in 1953. 

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I had help with the lyrics from this site

Family History Friday - Aunt Lillian's Wedding Part 1

When my father's eldest sister married, the ceremony was recorded with narration onto a set of 78 rpm records. She gave them to my cousin, Greg, and he transferred them to digital. He recently shared them with me. There are 8 records in all. I'll share one each Friday along with the best transcription I can divine. I will apologize as I'm sure I am spelling everyone's names wrong (aside from the people I know personally!).



Trust me when I say listening to this is a real treat! The narrator is almost like a sportscaster and his attention to detail is pretty impressive.

Transcription:

[Church bells chiming]

This is Thursday morning, November 24th, Thanksgiving Day 1949. it is now 10 o'clock and this is St. Benedict's Church at Lamontier and East Blvd in Cleveland, Ohio, where the wedding of Miss Lillian Zoldak and Mr. John Krizansky is about to take place.

Miss Zoldak is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Zoldak of 2816 Woodhill Road in Cleveland and Mr. Krizansky the son of Mrs. Mary Krizansky of 9403 Buckeye Road, also in Cleveland. Initiating at this single ring ceremony is Father Leo Rehack. At this moment the wedding party is proceeding slowly down the center aisle toward the altar. First come the bridesmaids, Florence and Rosemarie Zoldak, sisters of the bride. They both are wearing gowns of champagne colored satin and veiled Juliet caps which are brown velvet. On their hands the bridesmaids wear short mitts matching their gowns in color and they are carrying bouquets of gold and bronze chrysanthemums. Attached to the bouquets are brown velvet streamers which match the Juliet caps. Next is Margaret Zoldak, the Maid of Honor and also the bride's sister. She too is dressed in a satin gown champagne color and matching mitts on her hands. Her Juliet cap is also velvet and veiled and green in color. The bouquet she carries matches her cap being of green orchids and ivy with green velvet streamers. The bride's mother, Mrs. Zoldak, watches the procession attired in a gold brocaded suit dress. Her hat is of white velour and has gold and pearled trimming and gold veiling. She wears white kid gloves and her suede shoes and purse are dark brown. Her corsage is a white orchid. Mrs. Krizansky, mother of the groom, is wearing a blue crepe dress and blue hat. Her corsage is also a white orchid. The groom is standing outside the sanctuary with his ushers, Misters Louis Balogh Jr. and Theodore Rendessy. Mr. Rendessy is the groom's nephew. The groom is attired in tuxedo and white bow tie. His ushers are wearing tuxedos and black ties. On this occasion, the sides of the altar are flanked with palms and vases of white chrysanthemums.

Now here comes the bride herself on the arm of her brother, Mr. John Zoldak, who is also Best Man at this ceremony. The bride is beautiful in a gown of candlelight satin. The gown has a high neckline and the collar is beaded with pearls. There are satin-covered buttons down the front of the waistline. Her gown has a fitted bodice, long full skirt, long train. There are beaded balls of satin at the waistline. Her sleeves are long and pointed with satin-covered buttons at the tip. On her head, the bride wears a crown of orange blossoms to which is caught a two-tiered full-length veil of lace. Her bouquet is of calla lilies, baby pompoms and stephanotis.

Now the bride and her brother have reached the entrance to the sanctuary. The bride turns and goes to the altar of the Blessed Mother to pray for her guidance and blessing.

[Sounds of the bridal march in the background]

The bride and her family

Florence, Margaret, Margaret Sr (mother), Lillian, John and Rosemarie

Christmas 1889

Thomas still loves the Presidents. When I told him I saw President Harrison's Christmas dinner menu, his first question was "Which Harrison? The grandpa or the grandson?" Given that it was 1889, it was definitely the grandson, Benjamin. He has two claims to fame - his grandfather was President (William Henry Harrison) and he served in between Grover Cleveland's two terms.

From Chicago Daily Tribune, December 22, 1889.

Bouches a la Reine "bite to the Queen" is a little puff pastry (about the size of a biscuit) filled with meat (specifically sweetbreads) and gravy.

Consomme royale is a savory shaped custard made with consomme (a rich clear broth), gelatin and egg.

Potatoes Duchesse are fancy mashed potatoes - piped from a bag in small portions with a frilly tip and baked to crispy perfection (hey I'd eat that!).

Terrapin a la Maryland is turtle meat in a sauce served traditionally in a turtle shell. 

We also had a chuckle about Mr. Morton being the Vice President. We love the School House Rock song, The Tale of Mr. Morton: "Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence, and what the predicate says, he does."

Needlesstosay, our holiday menu will not be as extravagant as President Harrison's!

Family History Friday

Today's my youngest brother's birthday (who says history has to be old?). Here he is with his family piled on top of him on Thanksgiving. Hope he has a good day today.

Family History Friday - Aunt Margaret

Today we'll lay Aunt Margaret to rest. She was my father's sister, second child (of five) of my paternal grandparents. In her honor I thought I'd share what I think is one of the earliest photos we have of her.

On the far left of the photo is my grandmother, Margaret Novicky Zoldak. She is holding her second daughter, Margaret, (my dearly departed aunt) on her lap. Standing next to her is her cousin Justine (with crossed arms), then seated is Justine's mother, Julia Kranjnik Zoldak, and on her lap is Julia's third daughter, Josephine. Next to her is Julia's second daughter, JoAnne. The boys are cousins on my grandmother's side with my grandmother's sister Sophie standing behind them. The man standing in the back on the left is not a relative. Aunt Lill thinks he might have been Aunt Susan's boyfriend at the time. We believe the photo was taken in the summer of 1929 at Euclid Beach Park. 

Margaret Z. Matlak (nee Zoldak)
Cleveland, OH
Jan 18, 1927 - Dec 3, 2013

MARGARET Z. MATLAK (nee Zoldak), age 86. Beloved wife of the late John A.; dear mother of Mark Matlak and Marjorie Gessner (husband Michael); dear grandmother of Daniel and Kevin; dear sister of Lillian Krizansky, Rosemarie Martin and the late John Zoldak and Florence Halagan; loving aunt of many. Funeral Mass Friday 10 a.m. at Church of the Gesu. Please meet at church. Inurnment All Souls Cemetery. The family will receive friends THURSDAY 4-7 P.M. AT MAHER-MELBOURNE FUNERAL HOME, 4274 MAYFIELD RD. (AT BELVOIR BLVD.), SOUTH EUCLID (216)-382-4500. The family suggests memorial gifts to Gilmour Academy, 34001 Cedar Rd., Gates Mills, OH 44040. Condolences at www.mahermelbourne.com - See more here 

Genealogy and DNA

Ancestry.com's new program combines three of my favorite things - science, genealogy and social - so you know I'd love it: AncestryDNA. Here's how it works:

AncestryDNA is a new DNA testing service that utilizes autosomal testing technology to revolutionize the way you discover your family history. This service combines advanced DNA science with the world’s largest online family history resource to provide your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections. It maps ethnicity going back multiple generations and provides insight into such possibilities as: what region of Europe are my ancestors from, or what percentage of East Asian descent am I? AncestryDNA can also help confirm relationships with unknown relatives. We provide genetic testing and DNA results but an Ancestry.com account is required in order for you to explore your possible DNA matches.

Your DNA may hold information to help make new discoveries about your family’s past, your cultural roots, as well as confirm information in your family tree. Using your DNA test in combination with Ancestry.com gives you hints that can guide your investigations and connect you with new relatives.  

Your DNA test results also provides information that’s more relevant and recent—targeting your family history a few hundred or even a thousand years ago, as compared to the Y-chromosome or Mitochondrial DNA tests, which have a 10,000 to 50,000 year time focus.

The whole process takes 8-10 weeks but here is the first step (after signing up):

The kit arrives.

Pieces parts.

Instructions for collecting saliva sample.

Instructions for mailing.

More instructions.

Mailing the sample.

Once complete, my DNA results will be attached to my family tree. Provided that lots of people sign up, we may find some new relatives and new clues about our ancestors. Exciting, right? 

The 1892 New York State Census

It's my fourth great-grandmother, Lucinda Flagg Cain, listed in the 1892 New York State Census:

The column next to place of birth is Citizen or Alien - she was "A" for Alien

Here is the full page, click to see larger.

They lived in the town of Elko (read more about it here), New York, where Lucinda's brothers and sons had moved earlier in the 1800s to work in the lumber business. 

Genealogy Field Trip Report August 2012

Our genealogy field trip (previewed here and here) was a great success. We visited all three cemeteries, found everyone we were looking for, learned a few things and had a wonderful time together!

We started our adventure meeting our cousins at Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River. It's on Detroit Road and really easy to find. The staff in the office were very helpful - both on the phone ahead of time and in person that morning. Equipped with our maps and instructions, we headed out in search of great uncle Alfred. He was not in the first place we tried (imagine, that, two Alfred W. Andersons in one cemetery!) but we did find him, buried with his wife's family and his daughter and son-in-law.

In terms of aesthetics, Lakewood Park is very austere. All the markers are flush to the ground, making the cemetery feel more like a park than a graveyard. While it doesn't have a lot of character, it is filled with many Cleveland area dignitaries, including Dick Jacobs, former owner of the Cleveland Indians, so Uncle Alfred is in good company.

Alfred's wife, Jane, is buried between her first husband, Alfred, and her second husband, Albert.

 In the small world department, Alfred's daughter, Betty (who was adopted by her step-father, Albert) was an Alpha Chi Omega at University of Michigan. She died earlier this year (read her obit here). I took her carnations, our Alpha Chi flower.

Betty is buried next to her mother's parents with her husband on her right.

They are all in the next row down from Alfred, Jane and Albert. 

Next we drove over to Riverside Cemetery in Brooklyn Centre. It's right in the city, at the intersection of I-71 and 176. A much more traditional cemetery, it has all sorts of interesting monuments, statues and markers along with beautiful old trees and a massive gate house (photo, right) that is on the National Register of Historical Buildings. 

I had spoken to a very nice woman in the office a few days before who had given me detailed instructions for finding great Uncle Victor, Alfred's younger brother, so we headed straight to that area. 

It didn't take us long to find him and his wife, Ella:

Finding Ella was a new discovery. We knew they lived in Birmingham, Alabama, when he died in 1939, and that she brought him home to be buried in Cleveland. I had recently found her in the 1940 census living in an apartment in Lakewood but that was where the trail ended. 

Victor and Ella are buried with Ella's family:

Ella's Mom

Ella's father and sister. Lizzie died at age 4. 

Detail from Ella's father's stone. Her sister, Minnie, and her first husband are buried in the next row as well. Having Gessners in the family is another small world moment, as one of my first cousins on my Dad's side of the family is a Gessner by marriage. We'll have to see if they are all related. 

The biggest surprise at Riverside was the wildlife. We saw a lot of deer, including this whole family. They really were less than 30 feet away from us! Cleveland definitely still is Forest City. 

Our last stop on the cemetery tour was Monroe Street in Ohio City. It is the oldest cemetery on the West side of Cleveland with burials dating back to 1818. The gate house, shown on left, is no longer in service (the records are all at another city cemetery (and online)) and is falling down so the main entrance is closed. (It is being repaired.) There is a pedestrian gate to the left, down near the corner of West 30th Street. 

Mom had been to visit Theodore, my great great grandfather, before, so we knew just where to look. He is buried in the far back corner from the pedestrian gate. 

That's his stone, third to the left of the tree, with the shiny top. 

His daughters (my great grandmother and great Aunt Thorence) purchased this marker (it is not the original from 1891, was there an original? We don't know). Grandma died in 1962 so it had to have been prior to that. Update 8/17: Mom says, "Great Grandpa never had stone. They wanted him recognized, so they bought the stone and put it there. I think it was in the 1950ies."

Over lunch at Great Lakes Brewing Company, we shared family stories and discussed all the mysteries we still have to solve. It was a lovely morning!

Planning Our Genealogy Field Trip (Part 2)

Last week, I outlined the beginning of a field trip with cousins to explore our shared history (see that post here). This week, a few more stops we may make.

Theodore's two eldest sons (our great uncles) are also buried in the same general neighborhood as their father: Alfred, a physician who died in 1919, at Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River; and Victor, a merchandiser/salesman who died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1939, is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Brooklyn Centre.

Alfred William Anderson

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Victor Magnus Anderson

Riverside Cemetery Gatehouse

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Lakewood Park Cemetery
22025 Detroit Road
Rocky River, Ohio 44116
(440) 333-1922

Riverside Cemetery

3607 Pearl Road

Cleveland, Ohio 44109

(216) 351-4800

http://www.riversidecemeterycleveland.org/

Planning Our Genealogy Field Trip (Part 1)

While we're in Cleveland, Mom and I are going to have a mother-daughter lunch and field trip with her second cousin and my third cousin (also mother-daughter) to visit our shared relatives. 

Our first stop will be Monroe Street Cemetery in Ohio City to visit my Great Great Grandfather:

Theodore Andersen

Front entrance to Monroe Street Cemetery
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From this blog post I learned that the interment records for the public cemeteries in Cleveland are indexed and online. On the Cleveland District Round Table site, I accessed the Cleveland City Cemetery Index to find the record on my Great Great Grandfather, Theodore, who died in 1891.

Here is the index listing:

 click to see full size

zoomed in on the detail

Even more exciting, here is the register from the cemetery listing his address and cause of death.

click to see full size or view it online here

zoomed in

Close by the Monroe Street Cemetery is the Cuyahoga County Archives, which might be worth a visit. Especially since I'm pretty sure Mom is not going to be sold on the "Typhoid Malaria" cause of death listed at the cemetery.

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The Cuyahoga County Archives is open to the public, without charge, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. The address of the Archives is the Rhodes House, 2905 Franklin Boulevard, N.W., Cleveland, Ohio 44113; (216)623-7250.

Some records of interest:
Tax Duplicates, 1819 to present (not inclusive) Common Pleas Journals, 1810-1943 (not inclusive), originals; microfilm in the office of the Clerk of Courts
Marriage license applications, 1831-1875, originals; microfilm in the Probate Court
Divorce case files, 1876-1882, Court of Common Pleas; also, Ohio Supreme Court records, 1811-1858, and Court of Common Pleas Special Docket files, 1876-1922
Naturalization records, 1818-1971, Court of Common Pleas; also, Probate Court naturalization records, 1852-1901
Death records, 1868-1908, originals, index; microfilm in the Probate Court List of Electors, 1893-1945, Board of Elections
Coroner's case files, 1833-1900 (not inclusive)
Probate Court Estate case files, 1813-1913

Coming next week - Part 2 of our plans. Stay tuned!

Great Great Grandmother

Anna Mogensen Andersen

seen also here and here 

My Last Immigrant

2012 marks an important centennial for my family as 1912 is the year that my paternal grandmother emigrated from Slovakia to the U.S. She is the most recent of all my ancestors to arrive in the States.

My grandmother, Margaret (left), with her sisters, Mary (center) and Sophie (right) on the day Sophie made her first communion. In those days you had to be 12 to take communion. This photo was likely taken during Sophie and Grandma's first year in America. 

Grandma and Aunt Sophie arrived in New York, New York on March 6, 1912 on a ship called Kronprinz Wilhelm which sailed from Cherbourg, France. They had a brother, John, and a sister, Mary (seen in the photo above), who had emigrated and lived in Cleveland with their spouses. John's wife was Mary and sister Mary's husband was John (seriously). Brother John and his wife, Mary, had a daughter, Anna, in Slovakia. (Brother) "John was sending his wife to Europe to bring their daughter home to Cleveland. John and his sister (Mary) put money together to bring their sisters Sophie and Margaret back also. At this point, they were orphans living with their brother Joseph." Mary took her two young sons (John and Steven, ages 4 and 2) with her to get the three girls. "Story is that John's wife used the money for better accommodations for her sons and Anna and put Margaret and Sophie in steerage." Grandma was 9 and Sophie 12 when they arrived. 

After arriving, Grandma and Sophie lived with their sister, Mary, and her husband, John. 

Tragically, both brother, John, and brother-in-law, John, died young. Their brother, John, died in October 1924 after being hit by a car. Brother-in-law John Vall died in December 1930 of tuberculosis. 

All quotes courtesy of my eldest Aunt. Thank you, Lill!

My Grandparents Wedding Photos

February 12, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio (Dad's parents)

November 8, 1934 in Erie, Pennsylvania (Mom's parents)

Switzerland??

When we were at Mom's for her big bash, her brother, Ted, mentioned that he thought one of our ancestors was from Switzerland. Since Ted is the one who sent me all his family history documents, and I thought I had read them all (as best as I can, since some are not in English and google translate only goes so far), I wondered where he got the idea of Switzerland.

After much thought, this is my best bet.

My second great grandfather's birth certificate from Bas Rhin, France
(click to see full size) (see more about him here, here and he's on the far right in this photo)

Loose translation:

Town Hall of Sundhausen, Neighborhood of Schlestadt

The 20th day of the month of November 1842

Birth certificate of Schuller, Jean Jacques of Sundhausen the 19th of November 1842 at 8 o'clock in the evening, the legitimate son of Schuller Georges, age 42 years, profession of laborer, living in Sundhausen and of Busch Marie Elizabeth, age 33, living in Sundhausen, his wife in legitimate marriage.

The child was presented to us, was recognized to be male.

First witness: Beyer Philippe, age 22 years, profession of weaver,

living in Sundhausen department of Bas-Rhin

Second Witness: Schuller Jacques, age 57 years, profession of weaver, 

living in Sundhausen department of Bas-Rhin.

The statement was made by the father of the infant and after reading this have signed (signatures of witnesses at bottom of page)

Signed by the civil servant etc. 

Is this the culprit?

Both witnesses listed this as their profession - tisserand -
which translates to weaver - but looks enough like Switzerland to catch your eye,
especially with de in front giving the impression of 'from' or 'of'

What do you think?

In the meantime, I'll keep looking for Swiss relatives, because as you can see on this map it is near enough to be a serious possibility

The pink section (marked with A) is Bas-Rhin, France. To the east 

and north of the border is Germany (this area has been much disputed).

If you can see the light red boundaries within Bas-Rhin, I believe the

southern-most one is Sundhausen.