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Welcome to the website of the Naeff family and relatives |
Soon the Naeffs will meet again - hundreds of them - to the biggest and probably oldest family reunion in Switzerland. A celebration that started over 150 years ago with a small family has now grown to 300 people, and everyone is related to you!
Here you can get information all about the family Naeff, including the history of the Naeffs, their hometown Altstätten SG and of course the Naeffen reunion.
Most Recent News:
Familytree download - September 18, 2021
The family trees for viewing, download, print, and so on are now updated with content of September 18, 2021.
See Online family tree -> Download.
The Family History as Book
Dear Naeffen-Cousins
At the family reunion one year ago, the journalist Rebekka Haefeli wrote a report about our reunion in the NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). With that, the idea came up to write a book about the Naeff family. Ronja Sakata and Andreas Müller took on the idea together with Rebekka Haefeli and created a first draft of the idea. The Naeffenfest committee discussed the proposal at the closing meeting of the reunion 2019 (see attachment - german only). The idea got positive feedback. The comittee commissioned the initiators to invite historically interested family members to join the project. Naturally, the question about the projects financial aspect was discussed as well.
The initiators of the project were asked to present a budget which shows the financial possibilities and a time plan. The desirable timeline plans the publication for the next reunion in 2024.
For now, we would like to present the ideas to you and ask if you would like to join this project. We would be very interested in your comments, recommendations and criticism. Aside from collecting documents and images, we need IT specialists which can help to bring the files into electronically readable form. A chapter should also show how our relatives abroad live. Who would like to participate in that? At the beginning of our work we will also examine all existing documents which have been collected by Laurenz Gsell and Renate Altwegg-Im Hof.
Mit herzlichen Naeffengrüssen
Ronja Sakata
Andreas Müller
Attachment: Idea to write down the history of the family Naeff from Altstätten as Book (german only)
Familytree download
Better late than never! :)
The family tree is now available in various forms - one per clan and one with our entire family - for viewing, download, print, ... See Online family tree -> Download.
Update Apr. 4, 2020: The family trees can now also be ordered as printed and bound copy. Visit the Downloads section on this page for mor information