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Welcome to our website.

This website focuses on the Gerber family from Langnau, but it includes many more surnames from the Emmental Valley area of Switzerland. Also, it includes other ancestors of the website's founder, Tim Gerber.

Feel free to search our database of more than 12,000 individuals. Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask us questions. We don't normally have a lot of time to help others research, but we will help when time permits.

We do recommend that you apply for a user account in order to take advantage of the entire site. Please note that for privacy reasons, information pertaining to living individuals is not made public even to those who have an account.

Finally, consider adding your information to our site. If you use genealogy software, you can create a Gedcom file, and we can import you into the database. That way others can help assist you in our research. We do give credit to all contributors on all of the information they provide.

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Website Navigation

First time here? Watch this video to show you how to navigate the website.


Giebel (or Gibel)

Many Gerber families can trace their lineage back to a specific farmhouse: Vorder Giebel. Click here to learn the history about this majestic building and other buildings in the area.


Giebel Occupants

This document was created by Peter Gerber (Switzerland) and edited by Tim Gerber (USA) who are distant cousins. It gives extensive historical background of the owners of Giebel beginning with Hans Burki.


Anabaptist Hideouts

This page shows some of the places that the Anabaptists worshipped in secret or where they hid from officials.

The famous "Gerber Glass", or "Fluhliglas"

A special glass was commissioned in 1736 for the Gerber family at Giebel. It shows an early crest being used with hide tanning knives. Christian Gerber wrote a poem to welcome visitors to drink from it, a tradition that continues to this day. Click on the photo for more information.


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