Researching Kagay, Swain and allied families since the 1970s. In Switzerland the family surname was spelled KAGI with an umlaut over the "a" which was variously anglicized in America as Kagy, Kagey, Kagay, Keagy and other versions (not even counting the versions that start with "C" instead of "K"). All branches of the family are recorded in the 1899 book by Franklin Keagy, "A History of the Kagy Relationship in America from 1715 to 1900" (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co.,1899). In Switzerland the ancestral seat of the Kaegi Family seems to have been in the Zuercher Oberland (Zurich Highlands) of Canton Zurich, the hilly region east and southeast of Zurich City in locations in or near the Toss (Toess) River Valley such as Bauma, Baeretswil, Fischenthal, etc. My line descends from the original 1717 immigrant in Lancaster Co. PA (John "Hans" Kagy), through his son (Henry) who moved to Shenandoah Co. VA in 1768, through his son (Rudolph) in Shenandoah, and via his son (Henry) who moved his family to Central Ohio in 1833.

Researching Kagay, Swain and allied families since the 1970s. In Switzerland the family surname was spelled KAGI with an umlaut over the "a" which was variously anglicized in America as Kagy, Kagey, Kagay, Keagy and other versions (not even counting the versions that start with "C" instead of "K"). All branches of the family are recorded in the 1899 book by Franklin Keagy, "A History of the Kagy Relationship in America from 1715 to 1900" (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co.,1899). In Switzerland the ancestral seat of the Kaegi Family seems to have been in the Zuercher Oberland (Zurich Highlands) of Canton Zurich, the hilly region east and southeast of Zurich City in locations in or near the Toss (Toess) River Valley such as Bauma, Baeretswil, Fischenthal, etc. My line descends from the original 1717 immigrant in Lancaster Co. PA (John "Hans" Kagy), through his son (Henry) who moved to Shenandoah Co. VA in 1768, through his son (Rudolph) in Shenandoah, and via his son (Henry) who moved his family to Central Ohio in 1833.