Kinship Concealed: Amish-Mennonite and African-American Family ConnectionsBased on the lives of two real Amish brothers, Jacob and John Mast, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1750, this book traces their descendants throughout the 18th and 19th century based on oral history, historical documents, and historical imagination as written by co authors African American Sharon Cranford and Anglo American Dwight Roth. At age 20, John Mast moved to North Carolina, left the Amish and within two generations his progeny became

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for America in 1731

Elizabeth Kensinger

The "pulpit affair" mushroomed into a principal factor in the far-reaching division between conservative and progressive members of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in 1893

and Holland

Many of these families remained in Pa

Includes information from Volume I (out of print) such as all the Troutman descendants and most of the information on the Mahantongo Valley Trautman branch

This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive

Lebanon Co

each restoration has been carefully made to match the exact style and construction of the original house

Canton of Schaffhausen

Compiled in this book are the personal stories of eighty women's experiences with morning sickness