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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A bibliography of Mennonites in Waterloo County and Ontario
Type: BookAbstract: A list of over 120 monographs, serials, journal articles, newspaper articles and unpublished works, including theses and private papers relating to the Mennonite and Amish.Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1800-1988Export options:A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 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:Biehn/Bean family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada, 1700-1986
Type: BookAbstract: A family history including a reprint of Samuel U. Bean's work on the Bean family in Canada, with the addition of information from the "Mennonite Quarterly Review" of 1939 and 1929. The genealogical ...Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1800-1986Export options:Births, deaths and marriages in Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung, 1835-1840
Type: ReportAbstract: A listing of names, dates of events, and dates recorded in the newspaper, prefaced by a brief introduction to the journal and its owner, Henry William Peterson.Keywords: GenealogyNewspapersGerman languageBirthsDeathsMarriagePeterson Henry WilliamCanada Museum und Allgemeine ZeitungDer Deutsche CanadierWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1835-1840Export options:Canadian ancestral roots of Arthur Thomas Kloepfer and Philomena Agnes Gilker
Type: BookAbstract: A history of the family's progenitors and descendants. Arthur and Philomena came to the Maryhill area from Germany early in the nineteenth century. There are maps of the family farms, located on lots ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers GermanFarmersFamiliesMapsSettlers PennsylvaniaKloepfer familyKloepfer JacobKloepfer Monica Winter (m. Jacob)Kloepfer Jacob A.Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1810-1988Export options:Conference resolutions at the semi-annual conference of the Mennonite Church of Waterloo County, Ont., held in the C. Eby Church, Berlin, on the 13th
Type: BookKeywords: MennonitesWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1987Export options:Convention, power and the self in German Mennonite magic
Type: ThesisAbstract: This dissertation looks at how historical problems have been defined in cultural anthropology. Attention has been given to how notions of evidence and argument have changed in anthropology since the ...Year of publication: 1987Export options:Descendants of Hans Jacob Bechtel of Pottstown, PA and George III to Ont. 1929, Rev. Joseph to Ont. 1802
Type: BookAbstract: Genealogical chart of the descendants of the four members of the Bechtel family who came to Waterloo County from Pennsylvania, Abraham, Joseph, George and George B.Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesPennsylvania GermansBechtel GeorgeBechtel familyBechtel AbrahamBechtel Hans Jacob Rev.Bechtel LeviWaterloo CountyUpper CanadaYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1802-1987Export options:Elfriede and company: a tale of two families
Type: BookAbstract: The chronicle of the Janzen family, Russian Mennonites who fled to Waterloo County in 1924. The story includes the Neufeld family, for Eliese Neufeld married Rev. Jacob H. Janzen, and both had ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonitesRussian MennonitesGenealogyMusicArt and artistsSocial conditionsEducational exchangesChildrenSettlers UkrainianYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1903-1979Export options: