Genealogy Books

German Lutherans to Pennsylvania Amish: The Stoltzfus Family Story tells the story of six generations of the Stoltzfus family spanning over 200 years (1624-1832) as they find a path forward...

This volume updates and corrects Rev. Harvey Hostetler's two famous family histories: Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler (item #96) and Descendants of Barbara Hochstedler and Christian Stutzman (item #93). It is...

This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required...

Illustrated history of John or Hannes Miller, also known as Indian John, Wounded John, and even Crippled John, gives the genealogy of this family as well as other Amish-Mennonite families...

This family history not only traces the descendants of 1750 Bishop Jacob Mast (1738-1808) of Berks Co., Pa., but also traces Blank, Johns, Miller, Smucker, Stoltzfus, and Zug immigrants for several...

THIS IS A PDF Download: This booklet was researched and prepared for the participants on the Zook/Zug Immigrant Tour through Lancaster, Chester, and Berks Counties that took place on July...

New data from Dr. Werner Baumann, a Swiss historian and expert on Hirzel farm families (many of whom were Anabaptists) are traced in this book with as many as eight...

Over 9,000 family units are listed in this volume of Immigrant Jacob Hochstetler's descendants, concentrating on sons John, Joseph, and Christian. Names, dates, residences, church affiliations, occupations, and children's names...

Anyone with Huber or Hoover ancestry can probably trace their roots to Immigrant Hans Huber who is thought to have arrived in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1710. Hans Hoober, as...

Contains typographical errors, wrong information, and data returned too late to be included in the 1912 edition of Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler. Published a year after the book, this booklet...

Christian J. Kurtz was born in 1901, north of Morgantown, Pa. He married Elsie Stoltzfus in 1923 and operated the farm between Elverson and Morgantown. He was an ordained minister...

Exhaustive family history on the Batdorf family beginning with Immigrant Johannes "Peter" Batdorf who died on his way to the "new world." His widow, Anna, and her two children settled...

A colorful booklet on the Stoltzfus family, this collection concentrates on 1766 Immigrant Nicholas Stoltzfus, who settled in Berks Co., Pa. (24pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2009.)

Tradition is that the Troyers came from Trub, Switzerland. What does the Y-DNA evidence indicate about the family’s ancient origins? What was the name in Europe? What is known about the family’s history...

This book is more than a family genealogy; it is the story of every Pennsylvania Dutch person, tracing their lifestyle and religious beliefs back to the Germanic barbarians. Their Christianization...

Over 15,000 family units appear in this encyclopedia of Mennonite and Amish families, all descendants of Christian and Barbara (Hochstedler) Stutzman, first printed in 1938. Names, dates, residences, church affiliation,...

This massive two-volume genealogical resource is a transcription/translation of the 200-year-old record book (baptisms, marriages, deaths, ordinations, families) plus comprehensive coverage of over 45 surnames. Indexes are provided for emigration,...

This unique collection covers 232 Anabaptist families who were forced to leave Langnau, Switzerland, and settle in the Bishopric of Basel, Switzerland, where they lived for a number of generations....