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Meet Paul Connor, Reference Specialist in the Local History & Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress.	Paul Connor, Reference Specialist in the Local History & Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress, draws on the Library’s extensive resources in Amish Studies to discuss the unique history and culture of Amish Americans. View Webcast Read a transcript Note: To view the Webcast, you must have the RealPlayer software, available at the RealNetworks player download site.
Library of Congress Web Sites of Interest
Library of Congress Catalogs Main Catalog, Guided Search http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=Second Search for: subject=Amish OR title=Amish Search for: subject=Amish AND personal name=Hostetler John Andrew 1918-, Kraybill Donald B, Scott Stephen 1948- , Bachmann Calvin George, Johnson-Weiner Karen Nolt Steven M 1968-, Meyers Thomas J 1952-, Zimmerman-Umble Diane, Weaver-Zercher David 1960-, Testa Randy-Michael, McKusick Victor A, Tice George A, Coleman Bill 1925-, Jones Darryl D. Prints and Photographs Online Catalog http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html Search for: Amish Search for: Tice George A (change default option to “Match this exact phrase”) American Memory Use the “Search all collections” box on the upper right of the American home page [http://memory.loc.gov] and other pages to search on the word Amish. Results will include digitized historical materials from several online collections. Other Library of Congress Sites The American Folklife Center http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ Use the search box at the top of the home page to search on the word Amish. Exhibition: When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/young-home.html This exhibit contains a photograph of Amish children from the Library’s collections. To find it, use the search box at top left to search on the word Amish. Click on the image for a larger view. The Learning Page, Immigration – German: The Call of Tolerance http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/german2.html Other Materials of Interest at the Library of Congress Audio Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center Alan Lomax Ohio and Indiana Collection AFS number: AFS 1763-1767 Includes five discs with ten Ausbund hymns sung by Amish bishop Eli J Bontreger,1868-1958, and Joni Easch. Recorded in Goshen, Indiana, April 13, 1938. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 124B-125A.) Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach / Iowa Recordings AFS number: 6994-7013; 7068-7082; 7738-7753 Forty-nine 12-inch discs and two 16-inch discs, including Amish hymns. Recorded by Marcus Bach and Addison Alspach in Iowa, 1943-44. Martin Ressler / Old Order Amish Lob-song AFS number: AFS 17472 “‘S Lobg’sang” (“The Hymn of Praise”--Ausbund. Das 131. Lied). “O Gott Vater, wir loben dich, . . .” Thirty minutes. Recorded at an Old Order Amish service, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1972, by hymnal bibliographer Martin E. Ressler. Victoria Larimore & Michael Taylor Amish Collection AFC number: AFC 1987/014 AFS number: AFS 24370-24458 Eighty-nine 5-inch tapes of children's songs, interviews of Amish and formerly Amish people, New Order Amish songs, Old Order Amish hymns, and various sounds of Amish life. Recorded in Ohio by Victoria Larimore and Michael Taylor, September 1983-July 1984. The collection includes fifty-two pages of correspondence and notes. Subscription Databases Search on the word Amish to find materials in these databases, which are accessible only onsite through ProQuest Databases. Digital Dissertations ProQuest Databases: ProQuest Newspapers ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Other Web Sites of Interest
The Amish in Northern Indiana. http://www.goshen.edu/~lonhs/SamYoder.html From a Goshen College Web site. Amish Studies, from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania http://www2.etown.edu/amishstudies/Index.asp Bethel College, Kansas http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/bethelks?q=amish&domains=bethelks.edu&sitesearch=bethelks.edu 138 Amish-related articles. BibleGateway.com http://www.biblegateway.com/ To search the text of the Luther (German) Bible of 1545, use the pull-down menu to select Deutsch (DE), Luther Bibel 1545. Then search for a word or phrase; e.g., “Unser Vater in dem Himmel.” Countries and Their Cultures: Amish Overview, by Donald B. Kraybill http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Amish.html Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia: Hartzler Library http://www.emu.edu/library/ Search the catalog on the word Amish to find more than 1500 titles. “For the Amish, Almanacs Help Keep the Year in Order.” Mennonite Weekly Review, January 12, 2004. http://www.mennoweekly.org/2004/1/12/amish-almanacs-help-keep-year-order/ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online http://www.gameo.org/ Search by keyword or phrase: Abrath, Almanacs, Alms, Alsace (France), Amish Aid Plans, Amish Aid Society, Amish Division, Amish, Amish Mutual Fire Insurance Association, Ammann Jakob, Amusements and Entertainment, Anointing with Oil, Ausbund, Automobile, Avoidance, Beard, Bishop, Bonnet, Black Board Bulletin, Brauche, Buggies, Catechism,Chorister (Vorsanger), Christian Calendar, Coffins, Counsel Meeting, Courtship, Customs, Deacon, Dialect Literature and Speech, Pennsylvania German, Diener zum Buch, Dress, Education, Ernsthafte Christenpflicht, Excommunication, Family History, Fasting, Feetwashing, Folk Arts, Folk Lore, Folk Medicine, Amish and Swiss Pennsylvania German Folklore, Furniture and Woodworking, Geistliches Lustgärtlein, Genealogy Resources, Genealogy, Hymnology of the Swiss, French, and South German, Mennonites, Martyrs Mirror, Menno Simons, Nonconformity, Occupations, Old Order Amish Settlement, Ordnungsgemein, Pathway Publishers, Photography, Plain People, Publishing, Quilts, Radio, Reconciliation, Schisms, Simplicity, Singing, Singing Old Order Amish, Singings Amish, Statistics, Stewardship, Taufer- Testamente, Tourism, Tunes, Weddings, Work Ethic, Worship Public (North America). Search : (Amish Family Names): Augsburger, Bachman, Bender, Bergey, Boshart, Brenneman, Burkholder, Egli, Eicher, Engel, Erb, Esch, Eshleman, Frey, Gingerich, Hershberger, Hertzler, Hostetler, Jutzi, Kanagy, Kauffman, Kennel, King, Lapp, Litwiller, Mast, Miller, Nafziger, Schlegel, Schrag, Shantz, Smucker, Swartz, Swartzendruber, Troyer, Weaver, Yoder, Zehr, Zimmermann. Goshen College, Indiana http://www.goshen.edu/search/dualsearch.php?method=and&words=amish&searchopt=gcweb 231 Amish-related articles. Goshen College, Indiana: Mennonite Historical Library at the Harold and Wilma Good Library http://www.goshen.edu/library/ Search the Good Library Catalog on the word Amish to find more than 3000 titles. International Quilt Study Collection, University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.quiltstudy.org/search/index.html Search on the word Amish. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania http://www.lmhs.org/ Martyrs Mirror http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/contents.htm Text and images. Mennonite Life. Bibliographies, 1946-2005. http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/bibliographies/ Use your browser’s Find or Search feature to find titles containing the word Amish. Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheets: Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/index.html Driving Safely in Amish Country, AEX 596 Buying the Right Battery for Your Buggy, AEX 596.1 Buggy Battery Safety, AEX 596.2 Buggy Highway Safety Tips for You and Your Family, AEX 596.3 Boosting visibility of Ag Equipment, AEX 598 Additional Marking of Horse Drawn Vehicles = Additional Safety, AEX 598.1 Pennsylvania State University--Special Collections--Amish: John A Hostetler Collection (Archive) http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul.html Follow the link to The CAT and use the Advanced Search form to search for materials in this archival collection. Pictures of Amish on educational and government Web sites Use Google Images, http://images.google.com/imghp?ie=UTF 8&oe=UTF 8&hl=en&tab=wi&q= or Google (Web), http://www.google.com Search on the following text strings: amish site:edu amish site:gov Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association: James C. Hostetler Database http://www.saga-omii.com/tng/showtree.php?tree=hostetlr Taken from the SAGA-OMII group, James C. Hostetler database. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Search for: Almanac, Amish, Ausbund, Jacob Ammann, Martyrs Mirror, Old Order Amish, Pennsylvania German Language, Shunning, Swiss Brethren.
Other Materials of Interest
Print Sources: Books Ausbund, Das Ist, Etliche, Schöne, Christliche Lieder: Wie Sie in dem Gefängnis zu Passau in dem Schloss von den Schweizer-Brüdern und von Anderen Rechtgläubigen Christen Hin und Her Gedichtet Worden. 13. Aufl. Lancaster County, Pa.: Verlag von den Amischen Gemeinden, 1995. LC call number: BV481.M4 A84 1995 http://lccn.loc.gov/97182476 Beiler, Katie. Descendants and History of Christian Fisher, 1757-1838. 3rd ed. Rev. and updated by a committee of Fisher descendants. [United States]: Eby’s Quality Print., 1988. LC call number: CS71.F533 1988 http://lccn.loc.gov/90215549 Byler, John M. Amish Immigrants of Waldeck and Hesse: A Record of 263 Immigrants, with a Record of Their Descendants to Those Who Were Married by about 1865, plus Historical Records of Germany, Shiplists, etc. Bellville, Ohio: J.M. Byler, 1993. LC call number: E184.M45 B95 1993 http://lccn.loc.gov/2001368082 Cross, Harold E., and Beulah Hostetler. Index to Selected Amish Genealogies. Baltimore: Division of Medical Genetics, Dept. of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, [1970?]. LC call number: Z5313.U5 C73 http://lccn.loc.gov/73030781 Fisher, Gideon L. Farm Life and Its Changes. Gordonville, Pa.: Pequea Publishers, 1978. LC call number: S451.P4 F53 http://lccn.loc.gov/78111969 Gingerich, Hugh F., and Rachel W. Kreider. Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies. Gordonville, Pa.: Pequea Publishers, c1986. LC call number: E184.M45 G56 1986 http://lccn.loc.gov/86232814 Hostetler, John A. Amish Society. 4th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993. LC call number: E184.M45H63 1993 http://lccn.loc.gov/92019304 -----. Annotated Bibliography on the Amish. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Pub. House, 1951. LC call number: Z7845.M4 H6 http://lccn.loc.gov/51006543 -----, and Gertrude Enders Huntington. Amish Children: Education in the Family, School, and Community. Rev. ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992. LC call number: LC586.A45 H67 1992 http://lccn.loc.gov/91031733 Igou, Brad, comp. The Amish in Their Own Words: Amish Writings from 25 Years of “Family Life” Magazine. Scottsdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1999. LC call number: BX8129.A5 A43 1999 http://lccn.loc.gov/99022217 Kraybill, Donald B., and Carl F. Bowman. On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001. LC call number: BX8129.H8 K73 2001 http://lccn.loc.gov/00010406 Lindee, Susan. Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005. LC call number: RB155 .L555 2005 http://lccn.loc.gov/2004028267 Scott, Stephen. Amish Houses & Barns. Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, [1992]. LC call number: E184.M45 S35 1992 http://lccn.loc.gov/92028090 -----. The Amish Wedding and Other Special Occasions of the Old Order Communities. Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, c1988. LC call number: BX4951.U6 S38 1988 http://lccn.loc.gov/87038310 -----, and Kenneth Pellman. Living without Electricity. Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, c1990. LC call number: E184.M45 S36 1990 http://lccn.loc.gov/89049646 Print Sources: Periodicals Mennonite Quarterly Review. LC call number: BX8101.M4 http://lccn.loc.gov/31005309 Search the MQR index for 88 Amish articles: http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/search.php?title= &author=&subject=amish&firstyear=&lastyear=&volume=&month=&admin=0&max=10&start=1 Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. LC call number: F160.M45 P46 http://lccn.loc.gov/78648378 The PMH Index 1978-2002 has 30 Amish articles: http://www.lmhs.org/public/pmh/index.html

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