On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Richard Allen <[email protected]>wrote: If you are interested in Mennonite genealogy you could check out a book published in 2004 on the Mennonites in Franklin Co. PA and Washington Co. MD. It is some 900 pages long. You can buy it from the LCMHS: RB, I have a question and hope you, or other listmember, will answer: what is the difference between Mennonite and Quaker? Yes, I have done the google bit, but still don't understand. TIA Lou > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Lou: I'll leave it to somebody more learned in the subject to give you the theological differences between Quakers and Mennonites. They are both anabaptist (adult baptism) religions. But for most genealogical purposes, you can think of the Quakers as from the British Isles and the Mennonites as from Switzerland and Germany. If your immigrant ancestors were English, Welsh, etc in the right time period, look for Quaker records. If they were German or Swiss (or perhaps you've traced them to a Dutch port), Mennonite or another anabapism church is more likely. You can find some examples of descendants of early immigrant Mennonites becoming Quaker in Pennsylvania, And I would not be completely surprised if the reverse also happened, although I don't have any examples in my research. -- Karl Seitz > > >RB, I have a question and hope you, or other listmember, will answer: what >is the difference between Mennonite and Quaker? > >Yes, I have done the google bit, but still don't understand. > >TIA > >Lou >