After a successful run of 4 years, Swiss Roots is changing hands. Swiss Roots, run as joint venture of Presence Switzerland and Switzerland Tourism, is handing over the baton to the Swiss Center of North America, ushering in a new era of
Swiss Community.
Read the announcement (PDF) With this new partnership, Swiss Roots an Swiss Center of North America will continue to present a wonderful opportunity to explore Swiss culture and heritage as well as create a lively exchange between Swiss nationals, people of Swiss descent living in the U.S and people generally interested in Switzerland. Expect a more enhanced ex-perience and new interactive features in the community forums as well!
Stay tuned for more information!In addition to the new community - there are many other opportunities to conect....
So join the conversation today right here.
First, visit
The Swiss Center BLOG.
Beth Zurbuchen is learning more about her Swiss heritage, and the relationships between two great nations.
She wants to learn from you!
Jean-Francois de Buren will retrace the two-year long voyage through the Americas of the 1850s of his Swiss Great-Great-Grandfather, Henri de Buren, naturalist, artist and explorer. I intend to discover if the trip is as personally transformative for me as it was for him. Follow the story on his blogsite
The Grand Tour.
Check out
Swissstory. She's American, he is Aussie. Jessica started the Swisstory blog in April 2008 to chronicle their move from the States to Switzerland and to share their experiences with friends, family, other expats, hopeful expats, and those that just simply share our passion for travel and adventures abroad.
The Twissted Swisster website was orginally built as a way to keep in touch with friends and family backhome as I experienced the cultural transition that is a part of becoming an expat in Switzerland. I found a Blog to be the perfect format to record my own daily activities and share those activites with those that wanted to keep in touch.
One Big Yodel: I’m an American writer who moved to Switzerland in 2006 and am still pondering the lack of cheddar in the land of cheese. (I also really miss deep dish pizza—always a Chicago girl at heart). I have written for a variety of clients and publications on two continents. I'm currently at work on an international corporate soap opera--in other words, a memoir about my life abroad.
Patrick and Emily moved from Seattle to Switzerland in 2007. My husband and I have three children: Rowan (11/04), Niamh (5/06), and Muriel (10/08). They write
Our Swiss Adventure.My Brand New Swiss LIfe: Grew up in Chicago (the Chicagoland area, which I have been told by new arrivals in Chicago "sounds like a theme park"). After college, most of my female friends moved to New York to have the single-girl-making-her-dreams-come-true-in-the-Big-City experience. Think Devil Wears Prada (working in the magazine or book publishing business). Boston... now Zurich. It's in Switzerland.
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