RE: | | Were Mennonite marriages forbidden in Switzerland? | | A family genealogist (amateur) telle ms this is so. I have several | family lines stemming from Switzerland, most of them Mennonite, all of | them married there according to records I haven't checked yet. I am | paying someone to search records now ...will there be any marriages? | If they did not recognize Mennonite marriages, were the children of | such unions considered illegitimate? Or did all the Mennonites have | civil ceremonies? | | Any reading material you can recommend, I will find. | | Thanks, Jan Hall | By the mid-19th century "anabaptist" marriages were apparently recognized, as the birth records for several of my ancestors describe the parents as "anabaptists, married according to their rites", and list the children as legitimate. Others will have to weigh in about whether such marriages were always so recognized - I don't think they were. Another book concerning Mennonite history in Switzerland and in the US is "Bernese Anabaptists" by Delbert Gratz. Chris - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian B. Luginbuhl Phone: 520-526-8538 Flagstaff Arizona 86004-5392 USA Email: cbl@nofs.navy.mil - --------------------------------------------------------------------------