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A broken bowl
Type: BookKeywords:Year of publication: 1997Export options:A genealogical record of the descendants
Type: ReportAbstract: A history of a family with combined German and Scottish ancestry. Those who settled in Waterloo County include the families of Philip Zeller who lived near Breslau, Elmer Zeller McIntyre who bred ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesSettlersGermansWaterloo CountyZeller familyWilmot TownshipBreslau (Ontario)19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1840-1987Export options:A Good family genealogy: a detailed record of the descendants of Menno Good (1838- 1919)
Type: BookAbstract: A history of the Good family, members of which emigrated to North America in the early 18th century. Particular emphasis is given to the descendants of Menno Good and Joanna Martin and their seven ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesMennonitesPennsylvania GermansWoolwich TownshipGood familyGood MennoGood ChristianGood AbrahamGood PeterYear of publication: 1979Historical Period: 1800-1979Export options:A house of dreams: two Waterloo county young people from very different backgrounds struggle to build their own home
Type: BookKeywords: Schwantz familySchwantz Paul 1846-1929Grody Elizabeth 1855-1934BiographiesHespelerPennsylvania GermansYear of publication: 1997Export options:A Longhouse genealogy
Type: ReportAbstract: A genealogy of a German family who settled first in the Genesee region of New York State and later in Markham Township. Peter Longhouse, a farmer, moved to Waterloo County where he held land in ...Keywords: GenealogyGermansMarkham TownshipHespelerLonghouse familyLonghouse PeterBergey MichaelLonghouse Catharine Letson (m. Peter)Longhouse HenryLetson JacobYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1820-1986Export options:A. M. Fire and Storm [Insurance]: Simplicity in a Strongly Amish Institution
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A group of primarily Old Order Amish and Mennonite churches in Ontario successfully maintain the Amish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid Union that insures their members against natural disaster without ...Keywords: OntarioAssociations and clubsMennonites (Old Order)InsuranceAmish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid UnionAmishYear of publication: 1997Historical Period: 1872-1997Export options:'A Raw and Hopeful Field': Nineteenth-Century Baptist Evangelism and Church Planting among Ontario's Germans
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reviews Baptist work among German immigrants in Ontario. Revival efforts are exemplified in the lives of three men: August Rauschenbusch, Heinrich Schneider, and Johannes Stumpf. These men faced ...Keywords: ClergyEvangelismBaptistsYear of publication: 1997Export options:Adler auf dem Ahornbaum: Studien zur Einwanderung, Siedlung, Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte der Deutschen in Kanada
Type: BookYear of publication: 1997Export options:After Fifty Years, an Optimist
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reminiscences of an Orthodox rabbi now in Chicago who formerly served congregations in Tulsa (Oklahoma) and Ottawa (Ontario), and was later president of the Hebrew Theological College. [J. D. Sarna]Year of publication: 1979Export options:Analecta Helvetica et Germanica: eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Hermann Boeschenstein
Type: BookYear of publication: 1979Export options: