This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jdB.2ACI/547.3 Message Board Post: Source: Rhineland Emigrants: List of German Settlers in Colonial America Edited by Don Yoder Chapter Title: Swiss Mennonite Family Names Page 138 SCHELLENBERG (Schellenbarg, Schellenberger, Schellingbarg, Schollenbarg-with umot of o, Shallenberger, Shellenberger) In 17th Century a Schallenberger family from Erlenbach in Bernese Oberland (BA 49). Johannes Schellenberger, on the Pennsylvania Merchant, September 11, 1732, ancestor of America Mennonite Schellenbergers (ME IV:447-448; MC 338) Swiss form: Schellenberg, in Cts. Graubunden, Luzern, Zurich (HBLS VI: 156-157). Names also widely native in Southern Germany (ME IV: 447). Bibliography BA=Bernese Anabaptists and Their American Descendants by Delbert L. Gratz. Herald Press, 1953 ME=Mennonite Encyclopedia (4 volumes), Mennonite Publishing House, 1952-1957 HBLS=Historisch-Biogrpahisches Lexikon der Schweiz (7 volumes and supplements) MC-Mennonite Cyclopedia Dictionary (4 volumes),