TY - ENCYC KW - Genealogy KW - Shantz family KW - Shantz Noah W. KW - Shantz Rachel Shantz KW - Mennonites KW - Biographies KW - Pennsylvania KW - Waterloo County KW - Waterloo Region KW - 19th century KW - 20th century AU - Orvie Shantz AB - A genealogy of Noah (1854-1920) and Rachel (1856-1890), Waterloo County Mennonites who had seven children. An introduction explains that the family is related to Christian who came from Pennsylvania to Freeport in 1810. There are brief biographies of the children of Noah and Rachel who were placed in foster homes, following their mother's early death. C1 - Shantz Family; Shantz, Noah W.; Shantz, Rachel Shantz (m. Noah W.); Shantz, Christian; Shantz, Hannah Paul (m. Christian); Shantz, Jacob; Shantz, Susannah Schneider; Shantz, Daniel; Shantz, Esther Wismer (m. Daniel); Shantz, Edmund; Shantz, Mariette Gimbel (m. Edmund); Shantz, Daniel; Shantz, Mary Weber (m. Daniel) C2 - Martin's Mennonite Meetinghouse, Waterloo Township C3 - Freeport; Lexington; Waterloo Tp; Bloomingdale C4 - 1810-1974 C7 - English(30) 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 - 2279 LA - English M1 - Book, Whole M3 - Print(0) PY - 1974 SP - 23 p. index T1 - History of the Noah W. Shantz and Rachel Shantz descendants ER -