The Glattfelder Gazette — Casper Glattfelder Association of America

The Glattfelder Gazette Casper Glattfelder Association of America

Free Weekly Email · One Story a Week

Family stories used to get passed down around the dinner table.

Most of them stopped being told a long time ago. The Glattfelder Gazette brings them back.

One short story a week about the family you come from — from a man named Casper who left Switzerland in 1743 through eleven generations of descendants who built lives across the country. Five minutes to read. Yours to keep. Delivered free to your inbox.

Free forever One email a week 280+ years of family history

1743

Casper Crossed the Atlantic

Generations of Descendants

280+

Years of Family History

5 min

To Read Each Week

Why This Exists

The stories didn’t disappear. They just stopped being passed down.

Your great-grandmother knew stories about her parents and grandparents — where they came from, why they moved, what they built, who they married, and what they survived. She probably told some of those stories at holiday dinners, on the porch, or while putting kids to bed.

But families move apart. Generations pass. The people who held those stories are gone, and the stories went quiet with them.

That doesn’t mean they’re lost. It means no one’s told them to you yet.

The Glattfelder Gazette is a free weekly email that tells the stories of one American family — from a man named Casper who left Switzerland in 1743, through eleven generations of descendants who built lives across the country. Each week, you get one short, readable story. Not a research paper. Not a genealogy database. Just a story about the people you come from.

One Story a Week · Five Minutes to Read

You don’t need to be a history buff. You just need to be a little curious.

Some weeks it’s a story from 200 years ago. Some weeks it’s about a living family member doing something remarkable today. Every week, it’s something you didn’t know before.

Maybe your grandmother told you the family came from Switzerland. Maybe you just found out your last name connects to a family you’ve never heard of. Maybe someone sent you this link and said “you should see this.”

Whatever brought you here, here’s what you should know: there are thousands of descendants of Casper Glattfelder alive today. They carry dozens of different last names, and most of them have no idea how deep the story goes. You don’t need to care about genealogy. You don’t need to attend a reunion. You just need five minutes a week.

In Your Inbox Each Week

Here’s the kind of thing that shows up.

Every week — or as a monthly digest, if you prefer — the Gazette delivers one story drawn from a family archive that spans more than 280 years.

The crossing

The real story of how six families left a Swiss village and crossed the Atlantic in 1743 — and what they found when they arrived.

The branches that scattered

The branch that headed south into the Appalachian mountains and spread across five states — and how their name changed along the way.

The lives they led

The descendant who served in Congress. The ones who fought in every American war since the Revolution. The doctors, farmers, teachers, and builders of eleven generations.

The family today

What’s happening right now — reunions, scholarship recipients, new discoveries, and living descendants doing things worth knowing about.

The man who started it

Dr. Noah Miller Glatfelter (1837–1911 and 5th generation direct descendant through Casper’s son John) published the genealogy that sparked the first reunion in 1906.

Something new every time

No filler and no homework. Just one short, readable story a week about the people you come from — and why their choices still matter.

One Family, Many Spellings

Not sure your name “counts”? It probably does.

The family name changed with every county clerk and census taker. Thousands of descendants carry a different spelling — and many more descend from Glattfelder daughters who married and took new surnames altogether. If any of these appear in your family, the Gazette is about your people too.

Recognized Surname Variants

Glattfelder · Glatfelter · Gladfelter · Glotfelty · Glodfelty · Gladfelty · Clatfelter · Clotfelter · Clodfelter · Glotfelter · Glodfelter

Want Something You Can Hold?

A printed edition, four times a year.

The quarterly print edition

Every quarter, we compile the best stories from the Gazette into a printed edition — a real, physical newsletter you can keep on your shelf, share at a family gathering, or mail to someone who doesn’t do email.

The print edition is a paid subscription that covers printing and postage. Start with the free weekly email — if you want the print edition later, we’ll make it easy.

The stories are already there. Let us tell them to you.

One short story a week about the family you come from. Five minutes to read. Yours to keep, for free. Add your name and we’ll start at the beginning.

Casper Glattfelder Association of America · Founded 1906 · Glatfelter Station, Pennsylvania