TY - ENCYC KW - Immigration KW - Sherk family KW - Shirk family KW - Genealogy KW - Pennsylvania Germans KW - Mennonites KW - Swiss AU - Ren‚ Schürch AB - A genealogy of the Schürch (Schuerch, Shirk, Sherk, Sherrick) family from its 16th- century origins in Switzerland. The research contains information on the origin of the family name, heraldry, the Mennonite connection and the migration to North America. C1 - Sherk Family; Shirk Family C3 - Switzerland, Berne C4 - 1800-1986 C7 - English(30) CY - Berne, Switzerland DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993. ID - 2282 LA - German; English M1 - Book, Whole M3 - Print(0) PB - The Author PP - Berne, Switzerland PY - 1986 EP - 280 p. ill. EP - maps+ T1 - Schürch von Sumiswald ER -