Overview Genealogy and history of the Johannes Hofer Family compiled by Charlotte Betler Hughes into a booklet for presentation at the Hofer Family Reunion (held at Helvetia, West Virginia on 9 July 1994). This thirty-nine page booklet (photocopied) contains copies of family photographs and a history of the Swiss village of Helvetia, which was settled in 1869. The genealogy begins with Johannes (born in Canton Bern, Switzerland, 1836) and Kathrina Veltschi Hofer, who setted in Helvetia in 1871, and...