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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Shoemaker pioneers: the early genealogy and history of the colonial Shoemaker families who came to America before the revolution
Type: BookAbstract: A history of the Shoemaker family in the United States that mentions the families of John and Mary Schantz and George and Maria Detweller, both of which migrated from Pennsylvania to Waterloo County ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesShoemaker familyMennonitesSettlersPennsylvaniaWaterloo CountyWaterloo Region19th centuryYear of publication: 1975Historical Period: 1820-1864Export options:Splendid harvest : Germanic folk and decorative arts in Canada
Type: BookKeywords: GermansFolk artPennsylvania GermansYear of publication: 1981Export options:The Ahrens story
Type: ReportAbstract: A lively narrative of the life and times of the Ahrens family, German immigrants who were prominent in the development of Berlin/Kitchener and related to the J.M. Schneider family by marriage. The ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesAhrens familySettlersGermansBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerChurches Swedenborgians19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1803-1980Export options:The Daniel Schrag family history and genealogy
Type: BookAbstract: An expanded revision of an earlier 1964 edition by Keith Schrag. More biographical information on family members is contained in this illustrated version than in the previous book. Daniel was a ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesAmishBiographiesFarmersSettlers GermanSchrag familyKennel familyZehr familySchrag JacobYear of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1813-1981Export options:The Eby report
Type: BookAbstract: Articles, charts, illustrations and documents pertaining to the Eby family in America. Three issues were published: volume I, no. 1 in 1975, volume I, no. 2 in the summer of 1976, and volume II, no. ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesSettlersPennsylvania GermansSwissWaterloo TownshipBiographiesFrakturEby familyEby TheodorusYear of publication: 1975Historical Period: 1800-1978Export options:The family and childhood of Wilhelmine Ramsay Hogg Sias
Type: BookAbstract: An account of the migration of the Hogg family from Scotland in the 1830s, with a description of the Galt community up to 1850. The author also traces the history of her mother's family, the Breimers ...Year of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1835-1894Export options:The Fischer people
Type: BookAbstract: A chronicle of six generations of Fischers, the offspring of Philip and Caroline Wilhelm, German emigrants who arrived in Canada about 1835. Philip was a blacksmith who bought farmland near Strasburg ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers GermanFarmersFischer familyWeber familyFischer PhilipFischer Caroline Wilhelm (m. Philip)Strub JosephStrub Frederica Fischer (m. Joseph)Schuller F. XavierYear of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1835-1981Export options:The history and genealogy of the Brubacher Brubaker families in Waterloo County and Ontario
Type: BookAbstract: A family history that begins with Hans Brubacher in mid-sixteenth-century Switzerland and traces his descendants to Pennsylvania and Waterloo County.Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesBrubacher familyBrubaker familySwissWaterloo CountyPennsylvania GermansYear of publication: 1975Historical Period: 1807-1975Export options:The history of the descendants of Heinrich Detweiler
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy of a Pennsylvania Mennonite family who came to Waterloo County in 1810. The family first settled in Waterloo and Woolwich Townships, and later in Wilmot and Wellesley. Many Waterloo ...Keywords: Detweiler familyDetweiler HeinrichMennonitesGenealogyBiographiesSettlersPennsylvaniaWaterloo CountyWoolwich TownshipWilmotYear of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1810-1981Export options:The history of the Sararas family
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A sketch describing the family's migrations, first from North Carolina to Pennsylvania and then to Waterloo County in 1802. After settling first on Lot 12 of Beasley's Old Survey, the Sararaas family ...Keywords: GenealogyFarmersSettlers PennsylvaniaSararas familySararas Nicolas L.Sararas NicolasSararas Mary LivergoodLivergood JacobSararas AndrewSararas Elizabeth LivergoodYear of publication: 1975Historical Period: 1802-1975Export options: