Re: Swiss Schenks
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Re: Swiss Schenks
Donald Hess 7/22/03
Are you sure of the name of the town your Swiss Schenks came from?The town in your note sounds as though it could be a corruption of Eggiwil in Canton Bern which was the home of origin of many of the Schenks in America from Christian Schenk, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century to my own ancestors who emigrated in the mid-19th century.If they were from Eggiwil, there is considerable info on the family going back several centuries.
Dick Schenk