Amish SocietyThe standard work on the Amish that explores their beliefs and practice and change and resistance to change. Hostetler, who was born and raised in an Amish community, takes the reader inside Amish culture and explains the nature of Amish religious beliefs and ceremonies, community and family life, mutual aid practices, temptations, tensions with worldly values and outsiders. (435pp. illus. index. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993.)

Anne Adam who lived in France

Book 2 in the series (item #4040) and Christian's Hope

there is also biographical information on each family

dialect forms of surnames

But will Saul lose his community

Subtitled "Beard Cutting

who immigrated in the 1850s to Ontario

Seltenreich

mutual aid

printing of the Somerset Bible

Lydia Schindler

of Montgomery