Menno & Susan: The Chronicle of an Amish and Mennonite FamilyMenno Z. Troyer (1863 1945), son of Levi B. and Leah Zook Troyer, m. Susan B. Miller (1867 1962), dau. of Joe C. and Barbara Yoder Miller, in 1888. They had 10 children and resided in Kansas. There are chapters on the historical backgrounds of the Amish and Mennonites, immigration and settlement, moving west, and settling on the prairie, as well as excerpts from Susans diary; family members obituaries; and Troyer and Miller lineage charts. Includes

and spouses' Heimat

Henry Gibbel was born in 1717 in Germany and died in 1789 in Lancaster Co

and photographs illustrating a wide range of expression within the ritual tradition of over three centuries of Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture are displayed at the exhibit

Center for Pennsylvania German Studies

and (when found) additional family data on the earliest generation(s) from American records

dialect forms of surnames

Andrew Brubaker

recording their baptisms

The author was born in Philadelphia and lived many years in suburban Sellersville

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Also available is Henry's Dutch Country Anthology

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