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150 years of Amish history
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A short history of the Amish in Wilmot Township beginning in the 1820s with the arrival of Christian Nafziger. A map, based on surveyor Samuel S. Wilmot's 1830 report, shows the early settlement of ...Keywords: MapsAmishMennonites (Old Order)GermanWilmot TownshipWestern Ontario Mennonite ConferenceMennonite Central CommitteeNafziger ChristianAmman JacobSchwartzentruber MichaelYear of publication: 1972Historical Period: 1822-1972Export options:Canadian Amish Mennonite Roots in Pennsylvania
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Traces the migration from Pennsylvania and settlement in what are now York and Waterloo counties, Ontario, of the Troyer, Stoltzfus, Schwartzentruber, and other Amish families.Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1785-1835Export options:Cooperation to Amalgamation to Merger: the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Over the course of the 20th century an Amish and two Mennonite groups in Ontario - the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec, the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, and the United Mennonite ...Year of publication: 1993Export options:Genealogical resources: census records
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A guide to Ontario census records with particular reference to Mennonite families. Information available from the records is discussed, using Waterloo County examples. It mentions an index, compiled ...Year of publication: 1985Historical Period: 1838-1985Export options:Introduction: the Jantzi/Yantzi/Yancey family from Lorraine, France to Lewis County, New York and Ontario, Canada with smaller contingents soon moving on to Iowa and Illinois; Supplement: additions and corrections to Family history and genealogy of John Jantzi and Elizabeth Gerber by Mrs Menno W. Kuepfer and Lorraine Roth, 1974 and to The family history and genealogy of Joseph and Catherine (Boshart) Jantzi, Christian and Catherine (Boshart, Jantzi) Riser, John and Anna (Jausi) Ulrich by Ruth Yantzi Ryan and Lorraine Roth, 1982
Type: ReportAbstract:Background material on the French origins of the family with additions and corrected information, though the contemporary genealogy has not been updated. Both books mentioned in the title are ...
Year of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1830-1991Export options:Mennonite women slowly gain equality
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A general review with no specific references to Waterloo County except that one of the two photographs shows Mennonites picking berries in Berlin, circa 1912.Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1800-1985Export options:Mennonites in Ontario: an introduction
Type: BookAbstract: Successor to the booklet by J. Winfield Fretz, published in 1967 (and reprinted in 1974 and 1982), this concise account has short chapters defining Ontario Mennonites, tracing the origins of ...Keywords: MennonitesTechnologyEthnic groupsOccupationsCustoms and traditionsAgricultureEducationAmishMennonites (Old Order)OntarioYear of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1787-1994Export options:Old Baden Mennonite Burying Ground (CC#4563): Lot 13 North Snyder's Road Wilmot Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 12 markers, with index, for the Genealogical Committee of the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario. The introduction notes that the ground was conveyed to Nicholaus Klein and ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyTrusteesMennonitesYear of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1840-1887Export options:Steinman Mennonite Cemetery, CC#4570 : 1317 Snyder's Road West (Concession South of Snyder's Road West, Lot 18), Baden, Wilmot Township, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario (formerly Waterloo County)
Type: BookKeywords: MennonitesCemeteriesCemetery recordsYear of publication: 2014Export options:The years of Benjamin Eby, pioneer Mennonite leader in Ontario, Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A study of the life and times of Benjamin Eby (1785-1853), early community and church leader. A chronological account of Eby's accomplishments as a writer, educator, bishop and patron of new ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonites (Old Order)CorrespondenceEconomic conditionsPublishersWritersReligious dissensionTemperance movementTeachersFurniture industryYear of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1785-1909Export options: