Hutter family

Georg Ederer research dated Feb. 20, 1993, showed a pedigree chart of the Hutter family from house #2 in Hochabrunn, Kreis Waldmünchen, Bavaria, Germany. To summarize Ederer's research: Johann "Adam" Hutter, was born April 1, 1757, and married Anna "Barbara" Babl on July 10, 1777, at Ast. Barbara Babl was the daughter of Thomas Pabl, a farmer in possibly Stratsried (Warzenried is crossed off) and his wife Margaratha. Adam Hutter, a weaver at house #2 in Hochabrunn, was the son of Johann Georg Hutterer. Adam died November 17, 1831, at Hochabrunn 2. Ederer's pedigree listed their children and descendants.

Georg Ederer's complete Hutter pedigree written in 1993 can be seen on a DVD at various libraries and is available for purchase: Genealogies of families that immigrated to Sauk County, Wisconsin, from Bavaria, Germany. The collected works of Georg Ederer, Otto Horz, and Hansjörg Schneider. Authors of the DVD: Debra A. Blau and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Year published: 2011

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This Hutter family connects directly to Paul Ryan, the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and former Congressman from Wisconsin. Paul Ryan's mother was a Hutter with ancestors from Germany. The Finding Your Roots program on a PBS station aired on February 12, 2019, and featured Paul Ryan and his Hutter ancestors. On the program, the name Hutter was pronounced as "Hut-er" and rhyming with putter. However, the locals in the Plain, Wisconsin, area and in Bavaria pronounce Hutter like "Hood-er."

A February 12, 2019, Associated Press article said, "Gates said investigators were able to locate some of Ryan’s ancestors in Germany back to 1531." However, Finding Your Roots (FYR) showed a Hutter baptism record dated 1757 and mentioned nothing of the year 1531 in the program. Waldmünchen baptism records go to 1582.

Producers of FYR had access to the genealogy DVD mentioned above and it is assumed they saw Georg Ederer's research (written in 1993) containing Hutter pedigrees, and also had access to the Hutter book mentioned below. In an email with one of the producers (Prisca Pointdujour) in January 2018, I replied that Hutter was from Hochabrunn and referred to Ederer's work. If Ederer's research was what led the FYR researchers to finding baptism records in Hochabrunn, he, unfortunately, was not given credit. FYR showed the 1757 baptism record of Adam Hutter, a weaver at house #2 in Hochabrunn, but did not give a source for the baptism record. FYR showed a 1812 baptism record for Johann Hutter, also unsourced. An interesting note written on this baptism record showed Johann received a third vaccination in 1815.

Ederer's pedigree showed Joseph Hutter married Barbara Pronold in 1869, but didn't continue further with their children and descendants leading to Paul Ryan.

Besides the DVD mentioned above, the following book was made available to the Finding Your Roots producers: "The History and Genealogy of the Hutter Family, Hochabrunn, Bavaria, Germany" by Doris Danelski, James Harvey, Patricia Pulvermacher, and Bobbie Beal, published in March 2010. Page 197 explained that in 1909, Joseph Hutter (born 1848, died 1931) and five sons founded the Hutter Construction Company in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The book also includes a Hutter pedigree by Georg Ederer completed in 1992. In the program, Paul Ryan was seen reading from a typed version of a Joseph Hutter, Sr., story. That story appeared in the 2010 book above and in this Weitzer Ancestry newsletter #12: https://weitzerancestry.weebly.com/newsletters.html Unfortunately, this book was also not credited in the thank you section at the end of Finding Your Roots.

Producer Pointdujour also had contact with Patti Fortner and access to her Ancestry.com tree regarding Johann Evangelist "John" Hutter Sr. 1812 - 1896. Patti was named in the "Special Thanks" section of the FYR credits.

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