Mennonite Studies: Digital Collections

GAMEO provides reliable information on Anabaptist-related (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Brethren in Christ) topics, including history, theology, biography, institutions and local congregations. Note when researching in GAMEO that not all articles have been updated from their original 1950s version. GAMEO includes the full text of the print Mennonite Encyclopedia, and continues to add new content both from North America and around the world. GAMEO works together with the editors of other Mennonite encyclopedias to make their content available in the English language. These encyclopedias include the Lexikon der Mennoniten in Paraguay and the Mennonitisches Lexikon (MennLex) in Germany.

Over 100,000 photographs of Mennonite life from the collections of eight Mennonite archives.

Contains texts of primary source documents and brief articles and videos about different aspects of the life and times of Menno Simons.

Contains the full texts of significant Mennonite confessions of faith and position statements on a variety of issues, from the 16th century to 2010.

This is a reference set of the Jan Luiken (1649-1712) etchings in the Martyrs Mirror scanned directly out of a copy of the 1685 edition.

This is the most extensive digital collection of books and newspapers by or about Mennonites in Germany from 1800-1950. Its purpose is to provide open access to researchers interested in Germany, church history, and/or Anabaptism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This database provides access to:
1. Gospel Herald (1908-1998), the denominational magazine of the Mennonite Church
2.The Mennonite (1885-1998), denominational magazine of the General Conference Mennonite Church
3. The Mennonite (1998-), denominational magazine of Mennonite Church USA

Books from the series "Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought" as well as other titles by Kindred Productions.

A collection of American Anabatist-Mennonite blogs, Mennonite Church USA conference websites and the websites of the Mennonite newspapers The Mennonite and Mennonite World Review, since 2014

This collection contains microfilm published between 1880 and 1993. An index is available in the Library (Reference BX 8101.M483 Index) and online.

A website dedicated to helping people learn the Pennsylvania Dutch Language and also to gain insight into its culture and history.

An online archival exhibit and educational resource about conscientious objectors in Canada in the Second World War.

Print copies of this national Mennonite newspaper are available in the Milton Good Library and other Mennonite libraries and archives.

This collection of digitized microfilm reels includes copies of a selection of documents and files in Library Archives Canada's collections dealing with Mennonites. There are 10,000 images available for viewing.

Traces the search for a Mennonite identity, from the origins of Anabaptism in the religious and social ferment of 16th-century Europe, through the pioneering days in British North America, to the crucial point in 1920 when Mennonites were legally barred from entry into Canada.

Covers a critical period when Mennonite survival in Canada was under a variety of external threats, and internal divisions continued to fragment Mennonite communities.

These newsletters were created by conscientious objectors to military service who served in the Canadian government's Alternative Service and Selective Service programs during the Second World War.

Print copies of this national newspaper are available in the Milton Good Library and other Mennonite libraries and archives.

This resource is a personal blog by Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada (EMCC) historian Clare Fuller. With its origins in 19th century evangelical movements, EMMC's Mennonite roots include the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (not to be confused with the Brethren in Christ (BIC, Be In Christ), a separate denomination).

These Genealogical Introductions of 128 family names of all the known Amish Mennonite immigrants who settled or passed through Upper Canada (Ontario) in the 1800’s are built upon the research of Lorraine Roth of Tavistock, Ontario.

This digitized exhibit, created by students, showcases the stories and archival documents of Ontario Mennonite conscientious objectors during the Second World War.

A digital copy of the first Mennonite hymnal published in Canada, still in use among Old Order communities.

Created by Sam Steiner

Digital scans of files in the Mennonite Archives of Ontario that relate directly to the activities of Ontario Mennonites and other peace churches during the First World War.

Mennonite David Bergey of Wilmot, Ontario was a Mennonite farmer and teacher. The University of Guelph Rural Diary Archive posts excerpts from the year 1900 introduced and described by Royden Loewen.

This digitized exhibit, compiled from stories gleaned from letters, diaries, newspapers, photographs, government documents and family histories found in the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, paints a picture of the Great War from a “peace church” perspective.

UW Space is the digital repository for University of Waterloo dissertations and theses. A number of these works are on Mennonite themes, particularly of local interest.

Around 1800, families of Mennonites began to move north from the United States to Canada in search of farm land. Ezra Eby collected family histories from Pennsylvania German pioneer families in Waterloo Township, Ontario, and published these as "A Biographical History of Waterloo Township" in 1895 and 1896.

A scanned copy of the book on which the database is based.

Published by the Waterloo Historical Society since 1913.

Digitized by Region of Waterloo Library