Pitchforks and Pitchpipes: A Portrait of a Lancaster County Mennonite Family
A unique memory book of stories given by forty-four first-cousins, the grandchildren of Christian Garber Longenecker and Lavina Royer Bender, and the gt-gt-gt-gt-gt-grandchildren of Ulrich Longenecker who was the first...
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Pearl Buck's Living Legacy: The Welcome House Story (3rd EDITION)
This newly updated third edition tells a story of love and devotion during the winter of 1948. Pearl Buck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth and other books...
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Come, Daddy's Having a Stroke
Your life will be changed after reading this touching TRUE story of a Lancaster Co., Pa., family who experienced their husband and father suffering mini strokes and ultimately a major...
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A Slice of Pineapple
Mary Louise Uchida is an ordinary woman whose journey in life has enabled her to see beyond the ordinary. She finds humor and inspiration in her own day-to-day life. Her...
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Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
The author has reminiscences of his life, beginning in rural Wellman, Iowa, in the late 1930s, followed by a series of vignettes of historical interest about the Wellman area. Most...
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Living Waters
At age 88, Ruth Graybill shares her life story of working among Jewish people in Philadelphia, Pa. But this is much more than her life story from childhood till now;...
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Gleanings From Years Gone By
Christian Kilmer and Betsey Brubacher were born and raised in Emmet Co., Brutus, Michigan, in the Maple River area. They married in 1933 and eventually moved and settled in Bowmansville,...
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Working Papers of the East Reserve Village Histories, 1874-1910
A collection of stories by persons recalling memories of life in Russia from hearing their grandparents reminiscing. Pioneer villages in Russia that were established in 1875 included Bergthal, Vollwerk, Schoenthal,...
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Thy Kingdom Come; A Journey of Faith
With colorful candor and a delightful humor, this charming grandmother tells her story of life as a farm girl born in the 1920s into a strict religious home of older...
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The Centennial Hill Shoemakers of Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., Pennsylvania
The bulk of this book records and deals with facts, memories, and recollections from the 7th-generation—the 11 children of Peter Benjamin and his wife Sarah Phoen Shoemaker. During the 1880s...
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En Route: The Memoirs of Henry J. Gerbrandt
The memoirs of Henry J. Gerbrandt of Manitoba, Canada. (314pp. illus. CMBC Pub., 1994.)
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From the Farm to the House
This is a fascinating and very interesting story of a man who grew up in humble surroundings on a farm in rural Pennsylvania. Art's story is one of achievement and...
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Amanda's Father
This is the heart-rending story of a Mennonite family who weathers the problems of a failed marriage. Follow Amanda and her siblings as they try to understand "Papa," while knowing...
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From Troubled Times
This grandfather's story tells the true story of Swiss and German families who were forced to leave their homeland because of their faith. This story is based on letters (some...
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Pleasant Memories: A Tribute to My Parents, Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Good) Weaver
Elizabeth tells of her parents' love for music and how they provided for and taught their six children. She also includes family history information on their Weaver and Good ancestors....
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Our Flesh and Blood: A Documentary History of the Jacob Hochstetler Family During the French and Indian War Period, 1757-1765
This Jacob Hochstetler family story covers the Indian attack, house burning, three members of the family killed by Indians, and others captured using primary sources never before published that help...
Reminiscing Along the Conestoga: Memorabilia of Michael and Emma Burkholder and the Community Where They Persevered
This story explores the history of the Burkholder and Martin families who settled in the Weaverland Valley (Lancaster Co., Pa.) along the Conestoga River in the early 1700s. It is...
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Eine Wurzel: Tennessee John Stoltzfus
This biography of Tennessee John Stoltzfus (1805-1887), a true Amish Mennonite, is filled with drama, with successes and failures, with joys and sorrows, and with fulfillment and frustration. He was...
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Moses Hartz: Great-Great-Great Uncle
This essay on the pro and con of how the Amish people keep the shunning towards members who have been excommunicated is a search for deeper understanding of what the...
Christian Bucher (1833-1916): Elder, Church of the Brethren
Christian (Nov. 4, 1833-June 26, 1910), son of Jacob and Veronica Brubacher Bucher, married Eliza Dohner, dau. of John and Katherine Smith Dohner. They had seven children. Christian began recording...
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