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My maternal grandfather's clan migrated to California via Switzerland, the Palatinate (Pfalz), Galicia (now in Ukraine), and Kansas.

Swiss Anabaptists
Early Anabaptists were persecuted and killed in Switzerland. Many escaped to the German Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), which had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War and whose ruler wanted to repopulate his realm.
Migration of Anabaptists from Switzerland to Palatinate

Amish Mennonites Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia

"Amish Mennonites are that segment of the Swiss-Alsatian-South German Anabaptist-Mennonites and their descendants in North America who are the offspring of the group who under the leadership of Elder Jakob Ammann, of Erlenbach, canton of Bern, Switzerland, in 1693-97 separated from the main body in Switzerland."

"About 1790 a small number of Montbéliard (and Ibersheim, Germany) Amish families migrated to the Lemberg region in Galicia and from there to Volhynia, Russia, whence they reached Kansas and South Dakota as a part of the great Russian emigration in 1873ff."

"Earlier in 1875 the Volhynian Amish had come to Moundridge..."

The Province of Galicia (Galizien, Kleinpolen)
When Poland was partioned in 1772, Galicia became part of Austria-Hungary, whose rulers encouraged Germans to settle in Galicia. The capital was called Lemberg in German; it is now the Ukranian city L'viv, near the Polish border.
Galicia Administrative Districts (1906-1914)
Large Map of Galicia
Ukraine maps Name labels in Cyrillic alphabet. Lvov province = Lvivska Oblast. English-and Polish-language search for village names.
Info Ukes All kinds of information about Ukraine
Along the Galician Grapevine is an annual Mennonite Newsletter. Editor: gvtl@rconnect.com (attn: Glen Linscheid)

The City of L'viv (also known as L'vov and Lemberg)
Photo Tour of L'viv (Lemberg) with a bit of history
L'viv UNECSO World Heritage List
Guide to L'viv L'viv State University. English and Ukranian
Welcome to L'viv Smart Marketing Group
Welcome to L'viv City of L'viv
History of L'viv

Galicia Genealogy Resources
Federation of East European Family History Societies
Mennonites from Galicia (Kleinpolen): Glen Linscheid
Galician "New World" Echoes From the USA by Glen Linscheid
Germans From Russia
Deutsche Genealogie: Galizien German
Galicia: Genealogy and Emigration
Galizien: Genealogie u Auswanderung German

Galician Mennonites, Ewy/Eby Family
Mennonite Passenger Lists
Galizien German Descendants includes both Ewys and Hubers
The Ebys of Switzerland (and Palatinate, Galicia, and America) Prepared by Alice Neff
Mennonites from Galicia (Kleinpolen): Some Historical Notes by Glen Linscheid
Description of an Ewy farm at Moundridge Kansas Farm Bureau
...the Ewy Farm south of Moundridge is a third-generation operation run by Earl and Carol. Son, Craig, farms full-time as well. The family farms wheat, milo, soybeans and alfalfa. Grain grown on the Ewy Farm is used to background cattle. All of the cattle pens, working facilities, machine shed and shop were built by Earl and Craig. They also built the elevator on their farm with the help of a local millwright.

Kansas
Mennonite Connections on the World-Wide Web history, congregations, schools, and humor
Roadtrip USA: Across Kansas

Mennonite Heritage Center
One of the centers of the local Mennonite community, Hillsboro (pop. 2,704), 13 miles west of US-77, serves as market center for the area's highly productive farmlands. Tabor College, on the east side of town, is the most visible sign of the Mennonite presence; though it's a coed non-denominational college about half the students are local Mennonites.
The tidy town of Goessel (population 506), 15 miles southwest of Hillsboro, was also founded by Mennonite farmers, and now holds the worthwhile Mennonite Heritage Center, 200 N Poplar Street (10am-5pm Tues-Sat, 1-5pm Sun; $3; 316/367-8200), where numerous buildings, including two schools, a barn and a bank, have been moved for preservation. The flat black earth around Goessel is among the world's greatest producers of wheat, in particular the hearty hybrids able to withstand the Midwest winter. The original seed, known as "Turkey Red," was brought to Kansas in the early 1870s by Russian Mennonites who immigrated here after their 100-year exclusion from military service was rescinded."

Ewy Author (Authors?)
Dr. Donna Ewy, family physician in Great Bend, Kansas. Author of Preparation for Parenthood.
Dr. Donna Ewy, psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado. She is author of a book on the Lamaze method of childbirth. Her husband Rodger Ewy is author of Fathers: The Untapped Resource.

email john@jrhuber.com


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