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=== Background === | === Background === | ||
The Mennonite religion currently has about 1.5 million followers (2006). This anabaptist religion is named after Frisian Menno Simons, who was responsible for formalizing the teachings of other earlier Swiss founders. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite Mennonites] emigrated from Switzerland in several distinct groups, including those who went to Russia before coming to America and those who traveled down the Rhine to Holland, England, and then the United States. | The Mennonite religion currently has about 1.5 million followers (2006). This anabaptist religion is named after Frisian Menno Simons, who was responsible for formalizing the teachings of other earlier Swiss founders. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite Mennonites] emigrated from Switzerland in several distinct groups, including those who went to Russia before coming to America and those who traveled down the Rhine to Holland, England, and then the United States. | ||
=== 2010 — 300th Anniversary === | === 2010 — 300th Anniversary === | ||
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The Mennonite ancestry is Celt, but these earlier peoples did not maintain a written language. The only records of them are those pieced together from the writings of their Roman conqueror, Julius Caesar and archeological findings. The earliest remains of any Celtic people are of those trapped in a salt mine near Zurich, Switzerland. | The Mennonite ancestry is Celt, but these earlier peoples did not maintain a written language. The only records of them are those pieced together from the writings of their Roman conqueror, Julius Caesar and archeological findings. The earliest remains of any Celtic people are of those trapped in a salt mine near Zurich, Switzerland. | ||
=== Family Histories | === Cemeteries<br> === | ||
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=41219&CScn=guilford&CScntry=4&CSst=37&CScnty=2091& Guilford Cemetery]<br> | |||
=== Family Histories<br> === | |||
The FHL maintains copies of the family histories of many early Mennonite immigrant ancestors, as well as Milton Snavely Hershey, the founder of the confection and food company that bears his name. | The FHL maintains copies of the family histories of many early Mennonite immigrant ancestors, as well as Milton Snavely Hershey, the founder of the confection and food company that bears his name. | ||