The Landis family of Landis Valley was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. Its members were typical Pennsylvania Germans of their era, focused on farmi

Johannes (Hans) Landis (b. 1521?) and Katharina Schinz (b. 1524?) lived in Hirzel, ct. Zürich, Switzerland about 1547. Persecuted for their Mennonite faith, ma

The author draws on a Mennonite background, encounter with Irish Catholic faith, and the spiritual life she discovers in her grandmother and her own everyday li

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