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GRANDMA 6 CD-ROMView
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by California Mennonite Historical Society Genealogy Project Committee
  Grandma 6
CD-ROM, $30.00
Contains approximately 1,105,000 names in the registry. Grandma 6 will ship in August 2009.
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  Grandma 5
CD-ROM, $30.00
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GRANDMA (The Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry) is a project of the Historical Society's Genealogy Project Committee. Distributed on CD-ROM, this volume of the database contains 941,465 names and 292,406 families of persons whose ancestral lines can be traced to Mennonite communities in Poland and Russia. It is not necessary to purchase previous editions in order to use a newer volume, since all genealogical data from the first volumes is included on the fifth. The database is designed to be used with existing commercial genealogy software programs. We strongly recommend Brother's Keeper, which is distributed as shareware on the CD-ROM in both DOS and Windows version. There is a $45.00 fee if you decide to register a copy of Brother's Keeper, that is paid directly to Brother's Keeper. The database may be used with other programs capable of importing GEDCOM files, though many of these programs cannot import databases as large as GRANDMA. To use GRANDMA on your computer, you will need a DOS or Windows system with a CD-ROM drive and at least 125 MB available hard drive space. 
The Earth is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite ConferenceView
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by John Ruth
  hardcover with paper jacket, 1,300 pages, $69.95
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Lancaster County
Until now, the lush fields of the largest Mennonite community outside Europe have not been matched by a richness of recorded memory. An earlier general history of Lancaster Conference (1931) made little attempt to explain the community's ancestry. In The Earth is the Lord's, however, a story-laden past unfolds dramatically.

Starting with the 1614 execution of Hans Landis in Zurich, the narrative explores troubles in Bern and follows Anabaptists to Alsace and the Palatinate, and on to America, as the future Lancaster County's first Mennonists arrive in Philadelphia in 1710. The story reaches to 1977, when Lancaster Mennonite Conference adopted a new constitution.

The fruit of much patient work by family historians and computer-aided genealogists finds its way into this story. John Ruth adds folk memory to extensive documentation and careful explanation of key beliefs and practices, painting a picture of unprecedented detail, enriched by photos (240), maps (23), illustrations, index, extensive bibliography and notes.

This book is an indispensable source on its subject, with lists of early immigrants, congregations, ordinations, and conference officers up to 1977, and a general chronology.

Copyright 2001.

 
Annie's Day of LightView
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by Romaine Stauffer
  paperback, 633 pages, $12.95
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Lancaster County
Annie was born into a Mennonite home in Indiana. In 1892, when she was eight years old, she moved east with her family as her parents returned to their native Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The rapidly changing world was shaped by two World Wars, a Great Depression, two divisions in her Mennonite church, and a multitude of scientific discoveries and inventions which revolutionized the everyday lives of ordinary people.

The days of Annie's personal life were colored by sorrow and joy, poverty prosperity, sickness and health, disappointment and triumph. How did she manage to change with the times without changing? Where did she find the strength to continue when her personal world caved in and collapsed?

Copyright 2003

 
The European History of the Swiss Mennonites From VolhyniaView
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by Martin H. Schrag
  paperback, 176 pages, $12.50
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In 1874, four groups of Swiss Mennonites from Volhynia, Russia, settled on the prairies of South Dakota and Kansas. This group did not follow the main stream of people arriving from Russia. They were Swiss Mennonites who went to Volhynia, once a part of Pland, but after the divisions of Pland from 1772-1795, became a part of Russia. The following families can be traced back to this broup, Krehbiel, Miller, Schrag, Zerger, Graber, Stucky, Gering, Kaufman, and Flickinger.

Copyright 1974 Masthof Press

 
Amish and Amish Mennonite GenealogiesView
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by Hugh F. Gingerich & Rachel W. Kreider
  hardcover, 955 pages, $90.00
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This newly-revised encyclopedic volume contains all known Amish immigrants living in the United States with some information provided on their European roots. Families are carried through the generations up to the mid-19th century and ends when couples are married in the mid- 1850's.

Copyright 2007 Pequea Bruderschaft Library

 
The Amish-Mennonites of Waldeck and WittgensteinView
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by Hermann Guth
  paperback, 60 pages, $7.95
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Genealogical data on the Swiss Amish-Mennonite families who settled in the Waldeck and Wittgenstein areas of West Germany are compiled in this book. Most of these families lived here between 1750 and 1850, and then from 1830 to 1860 emigrated to Canada and the United States. Genealogical data on the families includes names, dates, residence in Germany and even Swiss origins.

Copyright 1986 Masthof Press

 
The Amish-Mennonites of Waldeck and WittgensteinView
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by Hermann Guth
  paperback, 60 pages, $7.95
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Genealogical data on the Swiss Amish-Mennonite families who settled in the Waldeck and Wittgenstein areas of West Germany are compiled in this book. Most of these families lived here between 1750 and 1850, and then from 1830 to 1860 emigrated to Canada and the United States. Genealogical data on the families includes names, dates, residence in Germany and even Swiss origins.

Copyright 1986 Masthof Press

 
Friedlesheim Mennonite Congregation Church BookView
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by Ellen Risser Farrell
  158 pages, $12.95
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  158 pages, $11.25
Save 10%! This is a new book but has some soiling on the cover.
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Register (1814-1997) of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths of the Friedelsheim Mennonite Congregation (begun in 1682) in Germany, and a list of emigrants: names, birthplaces, birth dates, baptism dates, marriage dates, and death dates.

Copyright 1998 Masthof Press.

 
Anabaptist Families from Langnau, Switzerland, 1749-1875View
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by Monty C. Peden, compiler
  126 pages, $14.95
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This unique collection of never-before-published data covering 232 Anabaptist families who were forced to leave Langnau, Switzerland, and settle in the Bishopric of Basel, Switzerland. In 1791 these families were recorded in the Langnau church register.

Copyright 2003 Masthof Press

 
1737 Immigrant Jacob MastView
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by Eli Lloyd Mast
  paperback, 92 pages, $11.95
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This Mast family history concentrates on Jacob Mast who immigrated to America in 1737. Some European history of Guggisberg, Switzerland, and areas they settled in Pa re included before the genealogy begins with Jacob Mast (1705-1772). Surnames include: Beiler, Christner, Eash, Gerber, Gingerich, Hershberger, Hoschstetler/Hostetler, Joder, Kaufman, Mast, Maust, Moist, Nisley/Nisly, Schlabach, Stutzman, Troyer, and Yoder.

Copyright 2004 Masthof Press

 
Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations; The Estates Where They Lived; Their FamiliesView
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by Hermann Guth
  hardcover, 380 pages, $19.50
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This amazing collection of data, assembled in a meaningful format on the Amish Mennonites in Germany, is much more than just names and dates. Guth combines a massive array of details accumulated from European archives and other sources to assemble a unique portrait of families which populated the 18th- and 19th-cenutry Amish congregations. Glossaries include translations of original documents as well as a delightful photo essay. 
Bernese Anabaptists and Their American DescendantsView
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by Delbert L. Gratz
  hardcover, 219 pages, $18.95
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Considered a classic by many researchers, Bernese Anabaptist holds a wealth of European information. Early history of the beginnings of Anabaptism in the Bernese are of Switzerland is given, followed by emigration stories as they fled to the Alsace and the Palatinate in the 17th century. Dr. Gratz combines genealogy and history in this book, giving examples of family names, stating where they lived in Switzerland before emigrating to other parts of Europe and later to America. 
Both Sides of the Ocean: Amish-Mennonites from Switzerland to AmericaView
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by J. Virgil Miller
  hardcover, 352 pages, $24.50
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This history of the migration of many Amish families precedes the out-of-print Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies. Many of the same families are featured, but their ancestors are also included for several generations before their arrival in America.

Fifty years of research appears in this book containing lots of maps and photos and genealogical and historical data on many Amish families traced from Switzerland, Germany, and France to their first settlements in America. Information was taken from civil records in Europe; cemetery records in both Europe and US; US census records; early land warrants; published lists of Anabaptists, ship passenger lists, lists of people exiled to other countries, etc.

Copyright 2002.

 
Heritage Preservation: A Resource Book for CongregationsView
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by David A. Haury
  paperback, 30 pages, $5.00
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A manual for Congregational archivists. 
Mennonite Historical AtlasView
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Helmut Huebert and William Schroeder
  paper, 195 pages, $20.00
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A collection of 128 maps showing past and present locations of Mennonites in Europe, Russia, North America and Latin America. The Atlas includes four maps of Aussiedler locations and six maps of Hutterite sites. Forty-two pages of text add meaning to the maps. Complete with bibliography and a detailed index. 
Mennonites in Transition From Switzerland to AmericaView
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by Andrea Boldt, Werner Enninger, and Delbert L. Gratz
  hardcover, 138 pages, $16.50
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Emigration letters shed new light giving experiences of the hard journey across the Atlantic. Read about a contract between the Swiss Anabaptist congregation and prospective emigrants offering financial help from the church. The Neuenschwander family is used as an example as a variety of Swiss Anabaptist documents are used as sources.

Includes the genealogy of Peter Neuenschwander (1696-1764), the diaries of Michael Neuenschwander (1778-1852) and Jacob Gerber and the emigration letter of Peter Klopfenstein (1854).

 
Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1793View
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by Hermann and Gertrud Guth and Lemar and Lois Ann Mast
  116 pages, $14.50
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Census lists of Swiss-German Mennonite families living in the Palatinate, German, from 1664-1793, some of which include heads of families, age, financial situation, occupation, children, servants, village,... 
Swiss Russian Mennonite Families Before 1874View
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by James W. Krehbiel
  hardcover, 332 pages, $18.50
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A history of Swiss Russian Mennonites who emigrated from Volhynia, Russia, to South Dakota, and Kansas, in 1874, covering over 1,600 persons in 315 families. Frequent surnames include Albrecht, Dick, Flickinger, Goering, Graber, Kaufman, Krehbiel, Muller, Ortmann, Preheim, Riess, Schrag, Schwartz, Senner, Strauss, Stucky, sutter, Voran, Waltner, and Wedel. 
Was Isch Dini Nahme? What Is Your Name?View
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by Delbert L. Gratz
  96 pages, $8.95
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About 350 more names were added to this revised edition of the study of Swiss Mennonite names. Corrections and additions were also made to the entries in the first edition. Find your surname in the "Family Names" lists--derived from first names, place names, characteristics, animal names, or occupations. Also includes the name of the town in Switzerland where the surname originated. A fascinating collection! 
Where Once They ToiledView
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by Edward R. Brandt
  28 pages, $5.50
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This illustrated story describes a 1991 visit to the Vistula River Valley in Poland in search of ancestors. The heart of this Mennonite settlement was in the Danzig (Gdansk)--Elbing (Elberg)--Marienburg area where Brandt, Nickel, Penner, Rempel, and Sparling families lived. 

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