Mennonite History & General Resources

Beiler, R. J. (1997). Distributing Aid to Believers in Need: The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 64, 73–87. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774053

Cassel, D. K. (1888). History of the Mennonites. Daniel K Cassel. https://archive.org/details/historyofmennoni00cass

Davis, R. W. (1993). Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners (Vol. 1).

Davis, R. W. (1994). Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1718-1726. Mennonite Family History, 13(2). https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/55577

Davis, R. W. (1997). Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners (Vol. 2).

Davis, R. W. (1999). Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners (Vol. 3). https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS87-7S3W-S?i=1238&cat=761809

Denlinger, C., Gratz, D., Hess, C., Kroeker, M., Miller, V., Park, M., Peters, A., & Walther, G. (1982). A Clue For Missing Anabaptist Family Records. Mennonite Family History, 1(4). https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/429871?availability=Family%20History%20Library

De Hoop Scheffe, J. G., & Pennypacker, S. W. (1878). Mennonite Emigration to Pennsylvania. Friendly Relations between the Mennonites in Holland and Those in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2(2). https://www.jstor.org/stable/20084336

Denlinger, C., Gratz, D., Hess, C., Kroeker, M., Miller, V., Park, M., Peters, A., & Walther, G. (1982). A Clue For Missing Anabaptist Family Records. Mennonite Family History, 1(4). https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/429871?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Dumbaugh, D. F. (Ed.). (1983a). The Brethren Encyclopedia: Vol. 1 A-J. Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc.; Internet Archive. http://archive.org/details/brethrenencyclop0001unse

Dumbaugh, D. F. (Ed.). (1983b). The Brethren Encyclopedia: Vol. 2 K-Z. Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc. https://archive.org/details/brethrenencyclop0002unse/page/680/mode/2up?q=hershey

Durnbaugh, D. F. (Ed.). (1983). The Brethren encyclopedia: Vol. 3 Lists and Maps. Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc.; Internet Archive. http://archive.org/details/brethrenencyclop0003unse

Emig, C. C. (2021). The Protestant genealogy in Alsace … Remarks and advices. http://paleopolis.rediris.es/NeCs/NeCs_01-2015/index-EN.html

Eyster Jacobs, H. (1898). The German Emigration to America, 1709-1740: Vol. III. of a Narrative and Critical History. The Pennsylvania German Society; Hathi Trust, Internet Archive. https://ia801605.us.archive.org/4/items/germanemigration08jaco/germanemigration08jaco.pdf

Feintuch, B., Stayer, J. R., Rosenberger, L. L., Till, B. G., & Ross, M. S. (1985). Persecution and Genocide: The General Problem as Illustrated by the Anabaptist Experience. Pennsylvania Folklife, 24(2). https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/107/

Garber, A. (2019). “Who for Conscience Sake Cannot Swear at All”: The Quest of the Lancaster County Mennonites for Naturalization. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, 42(3), 82–91. https://mennonitelife.org/document/2019-07/

Grueningen, J. P. V. (1940). The Swiss in the United States: A Compilation Prepared for the Swiss—American Historical Society as the Second Volume of its Publications (Vol. 2). Swiss American HIstorical Society. https://www.scribd.com/document/541922459/The-Swiss-in-the-United-States-a-compilation-prepared-for-the-Swiss-American-Historical-Society-as-the-second-volume-of-its-publications

Guth, H. (1960). European Sources for Eighteenth Century Genealogical Research. Mennonite Family History, 1(1). https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/557402/

Guth, H., Guth, G., Mast, J. L., & Mast, L. A. (1987). Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1793. Mennonite Family History. https://www.masthof.com/products/palatine-mennonite-census-lists-1664-1793

Hasse, A., & Seiler, G. (2023). 4 Social factors in mixed language emergence: Solving the puzzle of Amish Shwitzer. In S. Ballarè & G. Inglese (Eds.), Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation (pp. 85–120). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781168-004

Hess Siegrist, J. (2007). Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites. Mennonite Family History, XXVI(1). https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/55577?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Jecker, H. (n.d.). The ‘Anabaptist Tradition’ Reclaiming its gifts, heeding its weaknesses.

Kottelin-Longley, M. (2006). “What shall I do? The more I kill the greater becomes their number!”: the suppression of Anabaptism in early sixteenth century. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 19, 182–192. https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67308

Kuhns, O. (1901). The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania A study of the so called Pennsylvania Dutch by Oscar Kuhns 1901. https://archive.org/details/germanswisssettl00kuhnuoft/germanswisssettl00kuhnuoft/page/88/mode/2up

Lancaster Mennonite History. (n.d.). [Mennonite History]. Mennonite Life. Retrieved October 23, 2024, from https://mennonitelife.org/research/lancaster-mennonite-history/

Landis, I. D. (1962). As Others See Us—1823 Style. Mennonite Research Journal, III(1). https://mennonitelife.org/document/1962-01/

Macco, H. (1954). Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800 and Huguenots the Palatinate and Germany: Vol. I, II, III, IV, V. The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter Day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/

Raid, H. (1993). Anabaptists sold as galley slaves. Mennonite Family History, XII(I).

Rettenmund, J. (n.d.). On the trails of the Sumiswald Anabaptists: Guide to the Anabaptist Way [Municipality of Sumiswald]. Willkommen in Sumiswald. Retrieved October 21, 2024, from https://www.sumiswald.ch/wAssets/docs/tourismus/Fuehrer-zum-Taeuferpfad_englisch.pdf

Stuckey Levine, N. A. (2007). Toward a Catalogue of Likely Anabaptists in France With Known Places of Residence in Switzerland. Mennonite Family History, XXVI(1). https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/55577?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Thematische Suche im Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich. (n.d.). [Archiv]. Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich. https://archives-quickaccess.ch/stazh

Treese, L., Denlinger, R. H., Fetterman, W. B., & Hopple, L. C. (1988). Germanic Origins and Religious-Geographical History of the Mennonites in Europe. Pennsylvania Folklife, 38(1). https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/122/

van Braght, T. J. (1660). The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians. https://ia800504.us.archive.org/34/items/TheBloodyTheaterOrMartyrsMirrorOfTheDefenselessChristians/martyrsmirror.pdf

Wagner, R. M. (n.d.). The story of the Landis/Landeis Family From their origins in Switzerland, their Exodus to Alsace, the Palatinate, the Ukraine, and to the U.S.A. https://www.blackseagr.org/pdfs/wagner-roland/Landeis/Ch-01-intro.pdf

Whitmer, C. (2001). Swiss Anabaptist Refugees from Canton Bern in the German Palatinate in 1671. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, 24(2). https://mennonitelife.org/document/2001-04/

Wokeck, M. (1999). Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. The Pennsylvania State University Press.