Casper Glattfelder Association of America

Glattfelder Gazette

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The Glattfelder Gazette is a free weekly email newsletter and accompanying podcast that tells the story of the Glattfelder family — one short, readable story at a time. Each issue delivers a single story drawn from more than 280 years of family history, designed to be read in about five minutes. It's not a genealogy database or a research journal. It's a storytelling vehicle designed to reach the thousands of Glattfelder descendants — many of whom carry different last names and have no idea how deep their family's story goes — and give them a reason to care about where they come from.

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Casper Glattfelder Association of America

Episodes

Introducing the Glattfelder Gazette 30.06.2026 1:50

In 1901, a retired Army surgeon in St. Louis published a book nobody had asked him to write. Noah Miller Glatfelter spent forty years as a doctor and decades of his spare time writing letters to relatives he’d never met, digging through church records, wills, and land deeds. What he produced was the first full account of this family: eight hundred and sixty-one families, traced all the way back to...