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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 years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)
Christian Christner (1799-1836), a son of Peter Christner and Magdalena Guth, was probably born in Germany, where his parents had moved from Switzerland. He married Elizabeth (1796-1862) before 1820, and the family immigrated to Canada in 1828, eventually settling in Iowa. They had eight children. Descendants live in Canada and the midwest United States.
Hans "John" Segrist/Siechrist (1705-ca. 1763) and his wife, Anna Wildberger (1709-ca. 1766), lived in Ratz, Schaffhausen, Switzerland prior to emigrating to Pennsylvania in 1744. They took their four children; Hans Jacob (b. 1731), Hans Jacob (b. 1738), Anna (b. 1740), and Susanna (b. 1742) and eventually settled in York County, Pennsylvania. Mary was born sometime before arriving in America. Two known children were born in Pennsylvania: Catherine (b. 1750) and Margaretha Anna (b. 1754). Includes Blouse, Burkholder, Craley, Gehman, Hursh, Martin, Nolt, Stauffer, Weaver, Wenger, and related families.
John Trebilcock, his 1st wife, Mary and their two sons sailed from England to America, lived in New Jersey, returned to England, went to Toronto, Canada, where Mary died and John remarried; lived in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, where John Trebilcock and his 2nd wife, Mary Ann Pangburn, were the 1st settlers in Danville township, Worth County, Iowa.
Leonard Harvey Garber was born 5 Jun 1868 in Bronson, Branch County, Michigan, to David Garber and Elizabeth Hoover. He married Sarah Adeline "Addie" Grove, 5 Dec 1893 in Cullom, Livingston County, Illinois. She was the daughter of Samuel J. Grove and Mary Snyder. Leonard died 13 Aug 1940 in Alpha, Jackson County, Minnesota. Addie died 2 Mar 1950, in Jackson, Jackson County, Minnesota. They were the parents of 7 children. Descendants have lived in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Virginia, Kansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and elsewhere in the United States.
Johannes Ramseyer was born 3 April 1780 in Mancenans, France. His parents were Isaak Ramseyer and Anna Augsburger. He married Barbara Kaufman (1780-1844) 30 May 1800 in Alsace, France. They had ten children. They emigrated in 1834 and settled in Ohio. He died 4 July 1853. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kansas.