I have Merton Klippert in my tree...I am related to the Swalm family. These two families are very closely related. We have a Swalm research group online on Yahoo - contact me for more info? pintobat at hotmail dot com....

And I know that MY Swalm family came from Hesse Kassel Germany - 1834 - settled in Simcoe County near Duntroon, Ontario...

Cheers cousin!
Susan