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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Bill Moyer's Waterloo County diary
Type: BookAbstract: Brief historical sketches about places, industries, prominent people and families. Interesting facts are also described about aspects of daily life from hex signs to weather predictions.Keywords: GermansMennonitesMilitary conscriptionWar 1812FestivalsCustoms and traditionsBiographiesIndustriesFood customsBusinessesYear of publication: 1970Historical Period: 1800-1930Export options:Descendants of Christian Erb II, 1734- 1810, and Maria Scherch, 1737-1814, (12 children) who came to Ontario, 1808 (bu. at Blair)
Type: BookAbstract: Genealogical charts of the descendants of Christian and Maria Erb, who migrated to Canada to be with their daughter, Elizabeth Erb Schneider. The Erbs married into the Eby, Schneider and Sherk ...Keywords: GenealogyErb FamilySherk familyErb ChristianErb Maria ScherchErb JacobErb Salome GraybillEby familySchneider familySchneider ChristianYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1808-1984Export options:Family history and genealogy of Jacob and Catherine (Roth) Schwartzentruber, 1835-1969
Type: BookAbstract: A record of an Amish Mennonite couple who were married in Wilmot in 1835 and farmed there and later in Perth County. Biographies of their nine married children are included with genealogies of their ...Keywords: GenealogyFarmersSettlers PennsylvaniaBiographiesAmishMennonitesPerth CountySchwartzentruber familySchwartzentruber JacobSchwartzentruber Catherine Roth (m. Jacob)Year of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1835-1969Export options:Family history and genealogy of Jacob (Wagner) Gingerich and Veronica Litwiller, 1825-1975
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy of over 2,000 descendants, introduced by a section on the German background, the early Amish Mennonite settlement of Wilmot Township, and the development of the Gingerich family farm in ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers GermanMennonitesAmishFarmersLiquorReligious dissensionGingerich familyGingerich JacobGingerich Veronica Litwiller (m. Jacob)Year of publication: 1975Historical Period: 1825-1975Export options:History of Isaac S. Cressman family, 1830-1965
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy of the fourteen children of Isaac S. Cressman, who was born near Strasburg in 1830. Isaac's first wife was Barbara Schneider; after her death, he married her sister Elizabeth. There are ...Keywords: FarmersSettlers PennsylvaniaGenealogyReunionsCressman familyCressman Isaac S.Cressman Elizabeth Schneider (m. Isaac S.)Bowman Sybilla (m. Tobias)Cressman Barbara Schneider (m. Isaac S.)Cressman Ephriam S.Year of publication: 1965Historical Period: 1830-1965Export options:Schneider, Snider and Snyders: the descendants of Hannes, 1534 and Catherine (Haus) of Berne Switzerland and Jacob, 1764- 1853 (Bloomingdale)
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy, based on historical sources, of the ancestors and descendants of the three Schneider brothers, Jacob, Joseph and Christian, who came to Waterloo County early in the 19th century. Jacob ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesSettlers PennsylvaniaBloomingdaleDoonBerlin (Ontario)Berne SwitzerlandSchneider familySnider FamilySnyder familyYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1800-1983Export options:The family history and genealogy of Christian Steinman(n) and Veronica Eyer
Type: BookAbstract: An account of an Amish family who came to Wilmot Township in 1827. The genealogy of each family is prefaced with biographical information, and illustrations include photographs and facsimiles of ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesAmishSteinmann ChristianSteinmann Veronica Eyer (m. Christian)Steinman familySteinmann Christian JrSteinmann Maria Honderich (m. Christian Jr)Erb Jacob S.Erb Catherine Steinman (m. Jacob S.)Year of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1827-1990Export options:The family history and genealogy of Jacob Wagler and Magdalena Gardner and Barbara Lebold
Type: BookAbstract: A history of the Wagler family, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jacob Wagler, bishop of the Wellesley Amish Mennonite Congregation. Biographical information is provided about ...Keywords: AmishAnabaptistsMennonitesGenealogyBiographiesClergyWagler familyWagler JacobGardner MagdalenaLebold BarbaraYear of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1839-1989Export options:The trail of the black walnut
Type: BookAbstract: An account of the migration to North America by ten different European religious groups, notably the Mennonites. The references to Waterloo County (pp. 108-113 and 122-124) relate initial ...Keywords: SettlersGermansPennsylvania GermansAgricultureAmishLutheransMennonitesTunkersEthnic identityMapsYear of publication: 1957Historical Period: 1800-1830Export options: