Apart from the World: An Account of the Origins and Destinies of Various Swiss Mennonites who Fled from Their Homelands...
- ISBN-10
- 0917968190
- ISBN-13
- 9780917968198
- Category
- Mennonites
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Author
- J. Ross Baughman
Description
History of Swiss Mennonite emigration from Switzerland to the Alsace-Lorraine and Palatine regions of France and Germany, thence to Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere in the United States. Emphasis is upon ancestral families of the author.
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