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Type: BookKeywords: FictionBiographiesYear of publication: 1950Export options:Supplement to Henry B. Bowman descendants
Type: BookAbstract: A supplement to the author's earlier detailed study, listing names and birth and death dates of the descendants and noting the generation of each individual.Year of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1965-1979Export options:Swiss Mennonite ancestors and their relationship from 1775
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy referring mainly to the South Dakota Swiss Mennonites. Waterloo County names occurring in this genealogy are indexed in the WRP database. These are the Albrecht, Gerin, Graber, Kaufman, ...Year of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1800-1980Export options:The differential growth rates of urban centres in Waterloo County, 1800-1910
Type: ThesisAbstract: An assessment of ethnicity, railway systems, technological change and industrialization as factors in the growth of Berlin, Galt, Hespeler, Preston, Ayr, Elmira and New Hamburg.Keywords: SettlersEthnic identityWaterloo TownshipWellesley TownshipWoolwich TownshipWilmot TownshipDumfries North TownshipBerlin (Ontario)HespelerPrestonYear of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1800-1910Export options:The family history of Enoch Clemens Erb and Catharine Stauffer Good: their descendants and his ancestors
Type: ReportAbstract: A genealogy of the seven children and a niece who were raised by Enoch Clemens Erb (1842-1917) and his wife Catherine. Background biographical information is included about the Erb family.Keywords: MennonitesGenealogyFamiliesSettlers PennsylvaniaBiographiesBerne SwitzerlandGermany PfalzWilmot TownshipErb FamilyErb EnochYear of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1800-1980Export options:The Hallman-Clemens genealogy with a family's reminiscence
Type: BookAbstract: An autobiography of Rev. Eli Schmidtt Hallman, who was born near New Dundee and moved to Saskatchewan in 1905, later moving to Goshen, Indiana and then Texas. He describes the Mennonite revival led ...Keywords: GenealogyTeachersBusinessesMennonitesSchoolsSaengerfestsIndustriesEducationFarmersCustoms and traditionsYear of publication: 1950Historical Period: 1825-1949Export options:The history and genealogy of the Schantz family
Type: BookAbstract: A family history with a brief section on Shantzes in Canada and the United States. This portion mentions Christian who settled near Freeport in 1810 and Jacob Yost Shantz, a Berlin industrialist who ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesSchantz familyShantz familyShantz Jacob Y.Shantz MosesShantz ChristianFreeportBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1810-1980Export options:The history of Earl Einwechter by himself, 1980
Type: BookAbstract: A short autobiography of the employee of the New Dundee Creamery, including stories about his family and neighbours and reminiscences are his work as a hauler for the creamery and as musician-manager ...Year of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1902-1980Export options:The history of Waterloo County: a Story courage, vision, progress
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief historical outline to mark a century of county government. The author is most concerned with early settlement by Mennonites, Amish and European Germans before 1850, but she mentions the ...Year of publication: 1950Historical Period: 1800-1950Export options:The Mennonite Canadians
Type: BookAbstract: Textbook for primary school children with questions and activities. Mennonite faith, settlement in Waterloo County, the immigration of the Russian Mennonites and the present way of life are all ...Keywords: Russian MennonitesYear of publication: 1980Historical Period: 1780-1980Export options: