Last update: 10-Sep-2023 by Don Braffitt
These notes cover the family of George Wild and his wife Anna Barbara Kreis of St. Gallen, Switzerland and their sons Felix Wild and Hans Jacob Wild of western North Carolina.
For an online genealogy database which includes these Wild descendants and related families, go to https://willbraffitt.org/roots/.
Research by Larry Fobes primarily in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in a book WILDE published and revised several times with the last edition published in 2001. Larry died in 2004. The focus of this book is descendants of Felix Wild and Hans Jacob Wild who migrated from St. Gallen, Switzerland to western North Carolina.
Research by Elfriede Ludwig Wilde resulted in a book Jacob Wild Year 1500: A St. Gallen, Switzerland, Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee Connection published in 2011. The focus of this book is ancestors of George Wild and Anna Barbara Kreis in Switzerland.
Current research is focussed on verifying and extending details in the book by Larry Fobes primarily to expand the index in this book and update references in Find A Grave and FamilySearch. Some of the verification of the book details is based on DNA matches amongst likely descendants of George Wild and Anna Barbara Kreis. Anyone who believes they may be a descendant of Wild and Kreis from St. Gallen, Switzerland can participate via contributions to Find A Grave, FamilySearch, and/or submitting an AncestryDNA test.
For the latest charts and references on the family of George Wild and Anna Barbara Kreis, see