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Pennsylvania Deutsch Home Life
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: Pennsylvania GermansFolkloreYear of publication: 1979Export options:Pennsylvania German customs and cookery
Type: BookYear of publication: 1979Export options:Poth family history: descendants of Andrew Poth and Magdalena Lautenschlager
Type: BookAbstract: A scrapbook of photographs, articles, documents and genealogical charts relating to the New Dundee family.Keywords: FarmersGenealogyPoth familyLautenschlager familyLautenschlager PhilippPoth AndrewPoth EarlmontPoth FrederickPoth Emma Diebel (m. Frederick)Diebel PeterYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1822-1983Export options:Resources for local history and genealogical research
Type: BookAbstract: A list of resource materials located in the Kitchener Public Library, including municipal, county, business, church and family histories as well as primary sources such as census records, directories ...Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: c1800-1983Export options:Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, sometimes known as Oswald or Hoffer Cemetery (CC#4582): German Company Tract lot 52, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 83 memorials with translations of the kirkenbuch entries and a history of this vanished church. A name index is also included.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1853-1935Export options:'See the Vernal Landscape Glowing': the Symbolic Landscape of the Swiss-German Mennonite Settlers in Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: The Swiss-German Mennonites of Waterloo County, in western Ontario, have a long tradition of seeing the landscape as a spiritual metaphor. Early settlement is often seen as the creation of a small, ...Year of publication: 1983Export options:Separate and peculiar
Type: BookAbstract: An account of the Old Order Mennonites in Woolwich Township. Homes, clothing, customs, religious services and family events are described with simple drawings and a short glossary.Keywords: Mennonites (Old Order)Customs and traditionsMarriageFood customsEthnic identityFuneralsWoolwich TownshipYear of publication: 1979Historical Period: 1880-1980Export options:Simon Cress - the first Mennonite settler in the St Jacobs area
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief account of Cress who bought Lot 7 in Woolwich Township in 1819 from John Erb. The article provides information on the exact location of the homestead as well as biographical details of Simon' ...Keywords: Settlers PennsylvaniaMennonitesBiographiesSettlers PioneerCress SimonCress EphraimCress JacobCress CatharineBricker Elizabeth CressHewitt Rachel Cress (m. Elisha)Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1819-1852Export options:Story of the Markham Berczy settlers: 200 years in Markham, 1794-1994: a story of bravery and perseverance
Type: BookKeywords: Markham TownshipBerczy familyMennonitesYear of publication: 1994Export options:Swiss-German and Dutch-German Mennonite traditional art in the Waterloo Region, Ontario
Type: BookYear of publication: 1979Export options: