Mennonites in North America Project

Profile manager: Walt Eis [send private message]

About the Project

Mission: To help improve profiles associated with the various Mennonite groups / sub-groups.

Goals:

• Gather lists of resources
• Create areas within the project for the major groups (Swiss, Swiss Volhynian, Russian, Hutterite, etc.)
• Detail, when possible, where specific villages / congregations were located and where they immigrated to.

Members & How To Join

To join the Project, please contact the project leader Walt Eis. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Members:

• Walt Eis (Project Leader)
• Eric Weddington
• Eileen Bradley
• Michael James
• Mary Jensen
• Billie Keaffaber
• M. King
• Steve Kliewer
• Ginger Ratzlaff
• Kerry Richter
• Judy Brett

Major Groups

Pennsylvania Dutch / German

South German

Swiss (Including Volhynian and Galician)

• See the Volhynia Project on WikiTree, a sub-project of the Germany Project, managed by the Germans of Russia Team.

Hutterite

West Prussian / Russian / Polish

• Centennial history of Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church

Netherlands

Online Resources

• Mennonite Faith top-level category on WikiTree. Do not place on individual profiles.
  • Mennonites Category on WikiTree. You can place this category on individual profiles.

• Digital Mennonite Periodicals. WikiTree Space page.

• Grandma's Window. WikiTree Space page about the GRANDMA database (Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry)
  • https://www.grandmaonline.org

• MennObits. This site is part of the Mennonite Church USA Archives.

• GAMEO (Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online)
  • Springer, Nelson P. and David J. Rempel Smucker. (1989). Genealogy. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 9 May 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Genealogy&oldid=143580

• Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta website. Great site to find names of villages and students in schools.

• Mennonite Genealogy website.
  • Molotschna was the largest Mennonite Russian (Prussia) settlement.

• Global Anabaptism Portal website. The online source for Anabaptist articles, documents and stories. Excellent resource for all things Mennonite.

• Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College.

• Mennonite Life magazine and website.
  • Fascinating look at the Mennonites in their January 1955 issue.

• The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas, Spring 1974 (Vol. 40, No. 1), pages 38-62. Kansas Historical Society.

• Odessa, a German-Russian Genealogical Library website.
  • Mennonite Ships List 1872 - 1904 (J. Hubert, J. Thiesen)]. Published by the Odessa Digital Library - 5 Jun 1996

• The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE) - SGGEE focuses on the genealogy of Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia with some help for related regions.

• Germans From Russia Settlements Locations website

• https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/826490/volga-german-black-survey-germans-russia-settlement-locations

News Articles

• Portraits of the Past: Secret camp housed men who refused to fight in World War II, Ft. Morgan Times, July 5, 2018.

• Portraits of the Past: Deal meant work – not prison – for pacifists, Ft. Morgan Times, July 6, 2018.

• Demolition of abandoned building in Ukraine uncovers dozens of Mennonite tombstones, CBC, Nov 03, 2019.

Acknowledgements

This project was started by Walt Eis: I have some first-hand knowledge of the Pennsylvania German and Russian / Polish "waves" of immigrants.