Mennonite Family History

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Four Guemann Sisters: Catherine, Marie, Françoise, and Elisabeth

What caused the Guemann sisters to leave their home in Étobon,1 France, in the nineteenth century for America while their two brothers remained in France? When only the women of a family immigrate to America, their last names disappear among their descendants, and their pre-immigration stories may vanish as well. By recounting some of the

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Mennonites Tracking Their Persecuted Ancestors in Switzerland

It was not the first visit from the USA that Ruedi Gut-Leuthold receives at his farm in Knonau. In recent years, the retired farmer has been intensively involved with the history of the Baaregg estate on the edge of the village, less than three miles from Kappel where Huldrych Zwingli died in 1531 in the

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