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Distributing aid to believers in need : the religious foundations of transatlantic migration

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20341

Author: Beiler, Rosalind.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v. 64 sp. issue

Responsibility: Rosalind Beiler.

Author: Beiler, Rosalind.

Place of Publication: [University Park, Pa. etc.]

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: pp. 73-87 ; 23 cm.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania History; v. 64, spec. suppl. issue.; Gives background of Mennonites ; Swiss Mennonite settlement in Lancaster County with special mention of Martin Kendig.

Subjects: Swiss Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Emmigration and immigration; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v. 64 sp. issue

Letters of Mennonite clergymen

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1902

: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Letters of Mennonite clergymen / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Zahler, Melchior. Brechbuhl, Benedict, 1665- Mennonites--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Mennonites--Switzerland. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1902

Physical Description: [41]-45 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 3/4

Notes: Translated from Muller's "Bernese Anabaptists"

Subjects: Zahler, Melchior.; Brechbuhl, Benedict, - 1665-; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mennonites - Switzerland.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6

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The Dorlikon emigrants : Swiss settlers and cultural founders in the United States : a personal report by Konrad Basler

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Author: Basler, Konrad,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 973.0435 B315

Responsibility: Konrad Basler ; translated by Laura Villiger.

ISBN: 082042675X (alk. paper)

Author: Basler, Konrad,

Uniform Title: Dorliker Auswanderer.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Peter Lang,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: vi, 74 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Swiss American Historical Society publications, vol. 10

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Swiss Americans; Immigrants - United States; Thalheim an der Thur (Switzerland) - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.0435 B315

Swiss emigrants & Huguenots Emigrants to the Palatinate & America and Huguenots in the Palatinate and Germany (In German)

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Author: Macco, Hermann Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1954

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405

Alternate Title: Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800, and Huguenots in the Palatinate and German

Responsibility: information compiled by the late professor Dr. Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachen.

Author: Macco, Hermann Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Salt Lake City

Publisher: Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [comp.],

Date of Publication: 1954

Physical Description: 6 vols.

Notes: Reel 404: volume 1, A-C; volume 2, D-G; volume 3, H-L; Reel 405: volume 4, M-R; volume 5, S-Z; volume 6, INDEX; Microfilm. Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of the Churgh of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1970 2 reels, 35 mm.

Subjects: Huguenots - Germany - Palatinate.; Immigrants - United States - Registers.; Registers of births, etc. - United States.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.; Palatinate (Germany) - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405

Across the Atlantic and beyond : the migration of German and Swiss immigrants to America

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Author: Haller, Charles R.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Call Number: 929.3 H185

Responsibility: Charles R. Haller.

ISBN: 1556136978

Author: Haller, Charles R.

Place of Publication: Bowie, Md

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: xi, 324 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Changes in German Surnames and Personal Names--Changes in City and Village Names--Mennonites, Quakers and the Settlement of Pennsylvania--The Wandering Menno Simons--The Beginnings of English Quakerism--William Penn's Travels in Europe--Early German Quakers: A Small Minority--The Frankfort Companie--Germantown and the Susquehanna Subscribers--Protestantism and Books: Driving Forces behind the German Migration--The Froschauer Presses of Zurich--The German Americans--The Land of Wars--Of Kings and Queens and Lesser Nobility--The Rhine as a Migration Route.

Subjects: German Americans - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Swiss Americans - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; United States - Emigration and immigration - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 H185

Bernese Anabaptists and their American descendants

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21370

Author: Gratz, Delbert L.,

Date of Publication: 1953.

Call Number: 289.7 G772

Responsibility: by Delbert L. Gratz.

Author: Gratz, Delbert L.,

Place of Publication: Scottdale, Pa

Publisher: Herald Press,

Date of Publication: 1953.

Physical Description: xii, 219 pages : illustrations, portrait, map ; 24 cm.

Series: Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history ; no. 8

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.

Contents: Bernese Anabaptists in the sixteenth century -- Debates and early persecution -- Bernese Anabaptism in the seventeenth century -- Bernese Anabaptism in the eighteenth century -- Bernese Anabaptism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Migration of Bernese Anabaptists to America in the nineteenth century -- Bernese Anabaptist settlements in America -- Bernese Anabaptism in America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Summary: "This book holds a wealth of information discovered in archives and libraries in Europe. Early history of the beginnings of Anabaptism in the Bernese area of Switzerland is given, followed by emigration stories as people fled to the Alsace and the Palatinate in the 17th century. Genealogy and history is combined, with examples of family names, stating where they lived in Switzerland before emigrating to other parts of Europe and later to America. The appendix lists Anabaptists who fled from Bern to the Palatinate in the 1670s; Bernese Anabaptists found in Basel in the early part of the 18th century; Anabaptists in Commune Florimont, France, in 1791; Anabaptists in Canton Bern in 1823; and Bernese Anabaptist-Mennonite congregations in America." [from the publisher]

Subjects: Anabaptists - Switzerland - Bern.; Mennonites - United States.; Anabaptists.; Mennonites.; Mennonites; Anabaptists; Doopsgezinden.; Emigratie.; Switzerland - Bern.; United States.; United States - Church history.; Switzerland, Bern - Church history.; Switzerland, Bern - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.7 G772

Lists of Swiss emigrants in the eighteenth century to the American colonies

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Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Responsibility: by Albert Bernhardt Faust.

Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Physical Description: 2 v. facsims. 27 cm.

Notes: LCHS has vol. 1 only.; Vol. 2 compiled and edited by Albert Bernhardt Faust ... and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh.

Subjects: Immigrants - United States - Registers.; Swiss - United States.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Swiss emigrants from 1694-1754 who settled in the Palatinate Alsace Lorraine, Baden Wurttemburg, and Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13466

Author: Joder, Karl

Call Number: 905.748 MFH v.3

Responsibility: by Karl Yoder.

Author: Joder, Karl

Physical Description: 132-136 p.

Notes: In: Mennonite Family History, v.3 (October 1983)

Subjects: Palatine Americans; Swiss - Germany; Rhineland-Palatine (Germany) - Emigration and immigation.; Alsace-Lorraine (France) - Emigration and immigration.; Baden-Wurttemburg (Germany) - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 MFH v.3

Holding the line : the telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo164

Author: Umble, Diane Zimmerman.

Date of Publication: 1996.

Call Number: 384.608 U48

Responsibility: Diane Zimmerman Umble.

ISBN: 0801853125 (alk. paper)

Author: Umble, Diane Zimmerman.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: 1996.

Physical Description: xix, 192 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p.[175]-184) and index.

Subjects: Telephone; Telephone - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Old Order Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history - 20th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Religious life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Center for American Places (Harrisonburg, Va.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 384.608 U48

The path to America : from Switzerland to Lancaster County

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Author: Grove, Myrna.

Date of Publication: 2009.

Call Number: 284.3 G919

Responsibility: written by Myrna Grove ; illustrated by Peg Knueve.

ISBN: 9781601262080; 1601262086

Author: Grove, Myrna.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Masthof Press,

Date of Publication: 2009.

Physical Description: 100 p. z; ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: Part I. The journey of Jacob Graf -- Part II. A stone house in the wilderness.

Summary: The book, enlivened with description and dialogue, is suitable for middle-school-age and older readers. The material is based on Grove's visits to sites in Switzerland and Germany as well as research done here. Chapters in Part I are set in Europe and recount the journey of patriarch Jacob Graf (1618-1683), whose roots go back to the 1500s in the Swiss canton of Zurich, where Anabaptism was born. Grove explains that, by law, everyone underwent infant baptism into the state church. But as adults, Anabaptists made a Christian commitment and were baptized again, a practice forbidden by the state. To avoid prosecution and persecution, Anabaptists fled to Germany and the Netherlands. They were united by a traveling Dutch priest named Menno Simons and eventually became known as Mennonites. Part II is set after Mennonites' arrival in America in 1710, when seven families -- Kendig, Meylin, Herr, Bauman, Miller, Funk and Groff -- arranged with William Penn's agents to participate in his Holy Experiment in what was then Chester County. An early building in the settlement was Willow Street's Hans Herr House, depicted on the book's cover by artist P. Buckley Moss. Inside the book are 30 pen-and- ink drawings by Ohio art teacher Peg Knueve. [from LancasterOnline]

Subjects: Anabaptists - Juvenile literature.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Juvenile literature.; Mennonites - Juvenile literature.; Swiss Americans - Pennsylvania - Juvenile literature.; United States - Emigration and immigration - Juvenile literature.

Additional Author: Knueve, Peg.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.3 G919

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