• Genealogical and Local History Resources
• Transcribed Mennonite Church Records
• Manuscript and Archival Collections
• Periodicals
• Early Mennonite Families
• Local Brethren Family Names

Genealogical and Local History Resources

• Local Mennonite and other published families histories.
• Transcripts of about 165 local cemeteries (Mennonite, Brethren, Lutheran, Reformed, Union, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, community and private).
• Transcribed and translated diaries, account books, letter collections and records of local Mennonite families and ministers (1740s-1940s)
• Copies of Family Bible Records (more than 175 from the 18th to 20th century).
• Genealogical File - photocopies of unpublished research work and source material filed by surname.
• Cemetery Index Database of local Mennonite and Brethren and other cemeteries. Currently over 82,000 records from 120 cemeteries.
• Obituary Database of Mennonite, Brethren and other obituaries from local newspapers.  Over 7,000 records and growing.
• Subscription to Ancestry.com (a major genealogical research website)
• Transcribed and translated local church records (Mennonite, Brethren, Lutheran, and Reformed - 1730s to 1950s).
• Local newspaper abstracts (marriages, deaths, advertisements).
• Census records for most of Bucks and Montgomery Counties (1790-1930 on microfilm and on-line).
• Agricultural Census, Montgomery Co., 1850-1880.
• Local newspapers on microfilm (Souderton and Harleysville) 1880s-1970s.
• Indexes to wills, abstracts of wills, early tax records, 18th century immigration records, land records, marriage records, and other genealogical reference material.
• Published Pennsylvania Archives Series and Colonial Records.
• Area township and county published histories.
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Transcribed Mennonite Church Records

• Alms Books (Skippack, 1738-1954); Franconia, 1756-1945 and others).
• Subscription lists for meetinghouses (from 1805). These are basically early membership lists.
• Trustees Records (from 1818: Salford, Towamencin, Franconia, Swamp, Lower Skippack).
• Membership Records (of baptisms, deaths, removals). Records from 1848 to present for some congregations.
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Manuscript and Archival Collections (a sampling)

• Robert C. Bucher Collection. Lower Salford Twp., Montgomery County materials. 1718-1960s.
• Henry S. Landes (1871-1950) Genealogical Collection (photocopies).
• Abram C. Hunsicker (1905-1991) Genealogical Collection.
• Bishop Warren G. Bean (1866-1948) Records of baptisms, marriages, funerals, ordinations, memberships and sermon notes in the Skippack district, Montgomery County 1898-1946.
• Four Franconia Families. Collection of 657 letters from the families of Abraham S. Gehman, Bally; John F. Landis, Bucks Co.; William G. Gross, Fountainville, Bucks Co.; and Preacher John Gross, Plumstead, Bucks Co., 1848-1927.
• Preacher John Z. Gehman (1793-1882) Family documents, diaries, cyphering and account books, letters, fraktur, taufscheins and broadsides, 1786-1880s.
• Preacher Jacob Mensch (1835-1912) Collection; Upper Skippack Congregation. Diary; 1600 letters, 1860-1911; church records, 1870s-1910; Minutes of Franconia Conference, 1880-1907.
• Henrich Wismer (d. 1805), Abraham Wismer (1756-1844), Abraham Wismer Jr. (1791-1859) Family Collection from Deep Run, Bucks Co.
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Periodicals (highlights)

• Bucks County Historical Society Papers
• Der Reggeboge 
• Gospel Herald from 1908 to 1998
• Herald of Truth, 1864-1908 (microfilm)
• The Mennonite from 1885 to present
• Mennonite Family History
• Mennonite Historical Bulletin
• Mennonite Life
• Mennonite Quarterly Review
• Mennonite Yearbook and Almanac
• Historical Society of Montgomery County "Sketches" and "Bulletins"
• Pennsylvania Folklife
• Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 
• Pennsylvania German Society annual volumes (1891-2005)
• Pennsylvania German Folklore Society annual volumes (1936-1966)
• Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage
• Perkiomen Region
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Early Mennonite Families

Record of the following Bucks and Montgomery County area Mennonite families can be found in the holdings of the Mennonite Historical Library and Archives. This list is not exhaustive nor does it indicate to what extent any given family is documented in the collection.

Local Brethren Family Names

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