Welcome to the HVGN genealogy website

where HVGN stands for:
Hamacher Vosen Gempeler and Nipple

These are the four surnames of my (John Eric Hamacher) four paternal great-grandparents.

This website is of potential value to anyone researching their family history in south-central Wisconsin, especially Dane County.

Please continue reading if you want to get the most out the HVGN website.

HVGN is different than most personal genealogy websites that you will see in one crucial way. Each person in this website has a link to a "source" page ("Notes" icon) on which reference numbers are given for each datum. The reference numbers coincide with listings on a "bibliography" page. In order to see sources and the bibliography page at the same time, you must open the sources window:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hvgn/bib.html

Keep this window open.

Click here to start viewing HVGN genealogy. If you haven't already opened the bibliography window, do it now.

If you see a mistake, want to comment or have information I might find interesting, e-mail John Eric Hamacher ("Duke"). Over time, I will have additional people, information and sources along with more and more biographies on the source pages.

If you want to know more about the software which generated HVGN go to. The program is called GedHTree and is written by Gary Welker. For a small price he will send you the full-blown version.

Very special thanx go out to the following people for their time: Lynn Betlock, Leo Hamacher, Millie Hamacher, Penny Nipple, everybody who has helped me at the WSHL, and others . . . "you know who you are".

For those people who benefit from the HVGN website, the following links might also help you.

Theis site
Geraths site
All of these websites contain many of the same families seen in HVGN.