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I don't know anything about your particular line of Kasers
(unlikely that they're related to my line, which came from Bern, Switzerland in the late 1860's). However, I do have
a comment regarding your statement that "My father always
said they were German/Dutch."
Where I grew up in Oregon (and where my great-grandparents
settled in the 1880's), there was a large community of
descendants of Swiss-German immigrants. The area where they
lived had (in my memory) always been referred to as the
"Dutch Flats." I always wondered what the Dutch had to do
with it. It was only 3-4 years ago, as I was researching
in old newspapers, that I realized what the "Dutch" really
was. The newspapers sometimes referred to the area as
the "Dutch Flats" and other times as the "German Flats".
It was then that I realized that "Dutch" was really a
corrupted (mistaken) spelling of what SOUNDS sort of like
"Dutch", in other words "Deutch", the German word for "German".
So, your Kaser family probably had nothing to do with
"Dutch", but rather came from Germany or some other
German-speaking area of Europe. (One of my great-aunts,
on a recording from the 1970's, said that her father, my
great-grandfather, came to the US from Germany, but we
KNOW that he came from Bern Switzerland, so she merely
said (or assumed) Germany, because he SPOKE German. So,
while taking into account family "lore" which can be
VERY helpful, always take it with an open mind and a
grain of salt... :-)
Everett Kaser
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