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GENEALOGY & FAMILY HISTORY
There has been much interest generated by the MennObits project on one
of the
Historical Committee's web pages, MennObits.
[Click to go to that site]. Below find seven other starting
places for doing Mennonite and
Amish genealogy and family history:
The Goshen Archives has some congregational records, mostly from 1950
forward, from churches belonging to the former Mennonite Church in
North America (founded in 1898). Many churches did not keep
membership records, and so the best place to start is the Mennonite
Historical Library, Goshen College (located across campus from the
archives). This library has many genealogical books.
Mennonite Historical Library,
Goshen College
and
Mennonite Church USA Archives -
North Newton, Kansas
(Mennonite Library and Archives,
Bethel College, Kansas)
http://www.bethelks.edu/mla/index.php
E-mail: mla@bethelks.edu
The North Newton archives and
historical library family history collections focus on Mennonites who
came to the Plains states starting around 1870. It includes
information on their ancestors in the Russian Empire and Prussia (now
Poland), and on their descendants. As the archives of the former
General Conference Mennonite Church, records from congregations of that
group are also a focus.
and
California
Mennonite Historical Society, Fresno, California
GRANDMA
CD-ROM project
http://calmenno.org/grandma/index.htm
GRANDMA (The
Genealogical Registry
and Database of Mennonite
Ancestry) is a project of the California
Mennonite Historical Society's Genealogy Project Committee. Distributed
on CD-ROM, the current version 4.23 of the database contains genealogical
information about 813,831 individuals, most of whose ancestral lines
can be traced to Mennonite communities in Poland and Russia.
and
Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical
Association
(Coordinator, John Steiner, Cincinnati, Ohio)
SAGA-OMII Project
http://www.omii.org/
This site contains many large databases on Mennonites,
Amish, Brethren and other families of Swiss origin, with a focus on
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Pennsylvania.
SAGA-OMII is dedicated to compiling and digitizing genealogical
records of Swiss, German, French, Austrian and Eastern Immigrant
families with Anabaptist roots, begun by families in Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana and Illinoise, and founded as the OMII Genealogical Association.
Additional Sites
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Brinton L. Rutherford, director, Lloyd R.
Zeager, librarian, 2215 Millstream Rd, Lancaster, PA 17602, Telephone:
(717) 393-9745, Fax: (717) 393-8751, E-mail:
lmhs@lmhs.com | Web site:
www.lmhs.org
Good source for Mennonites in Pennsylvania, particularly Lancaster
County.
Mennonite Heritage Center, Sarah Wolfgang Heffner, director, 565 Yoder
Rd, PO Box 82, Harleyville, PA 19438-0082, Telephone: (215) 256-3023, E-mail: info@mhep.org | Web site: www.mhep.org
Good source for Mennonites in Pennsylvania, particulary
Bucks and Montgomery Counties.
Mennonite
Family History (magazine). Mennonite
Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and
Brethren genealogy and family history. It has been published since
January 1982, and now is in its 24th year of publication. The magazine
has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors
are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.
http://www.masthof.com/mfh/mfh.html
A good genealogy web site
for Mennonites who are in Canada is
http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/
Site is
sponsored by the Manitoba Mennonite Historical
Society
Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, Gilbert Brandt, president, 600 Shaftesbury
Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M4, Telephone: (204) 888-6781, E-mail:
jacob.peters@uwinnipeg.ca, | Web
site: www.mmhs.org
A good genealogy place to
start for persons in Elkhart County (Goshen, New Paris, Elkhart, etc.)
Indiana is the
Elkhart County (Indiana) Genealogical Society.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inelkhar/ecgs.htm
Or the
home page for the Elkhart County Historical Society, Bristol, Indiana
http://www.elkhartcountyparks.org/properties_locations/rush_memorial_center.htm
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