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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Collection
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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Use of Audiovisual Aids in Mennonite Congregations Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/021
  • Collection
  • 1952-1958

These records document two projects, Project 27 and Project 38, that examined the use of slide sets, filmstrips, and films by congregations affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church.  Records include questionnaires filled out by congregational representatives in 1952 and 1957, correspondence, and reports.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Study of Mennonite Givings Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/013
  • Collection
  • 1949-1952

One folder of correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous materials concerning a study of Mennonite contributions to the (Old) Mennonite Church, its congregations, its agencies, and addiliated charitable organizations (Mennonite Research Foundation Project #16).  A report appears in the September 12, 1950 issue of the Gospel Herald.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Office of the Deacon Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/031
  • Collection
  • 1958

Correspondence, data, and final report of a historical study of the role of deacons in the (old) Mennonite Church (Project #39) undertaken in 1958. The data collected for this project are district conference and general conference resolutions pertaining to the ministry of deacons from 1870 through 1950.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Noncombatant Service Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/015
  • Collection
  • 1944-1950

A small set of records documenting Mennonite Research Foundation Project #5 on Noncombatant Service (i.e. military service in positions not requiring combat participation).  Materials include a collection of tracts on noncombatant service by the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, correspondence and surveys completed by Mennonite men who served in noncombatant positions during World War II, and draft manuscripts of "What of Noncombatant Service" and "What Is War" by Melvin Gingerich.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) New Draft Census Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/022
  • Collection
  • 1954-1956

Response card files, work sheets, correspondence, and final reports for the 1956 census of Mennonite men's draft registration status.  This census, conducted in 1956, was also known as Project 33 of the Mennonite Research Foundation.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Outreach Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/018
  • Collection
  • 1952-1953

Correspondence, completed questionnaires, and reports regarding Project #20, a study of Mennonite evangelism by John A. Hostetler. The questionnaires provide interesting details regarding the reasons why former members of the (old) Mennonite Church, both men and women, decided to leave the church in the 1940s and early 1950s.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Mutual Aid Organizations Study Records

  • US MCUSAA 1563
  • Collection
  • 1950-1956

Records pertaining to Project 15a, a study of Mennonite mutual aid organizations,  Materials include correspondence, questionnaires, a directory of Mennonite mutual aid organizations, and a paper by Wilbert Shenk entitled " Mennonite Insurance and Mutual Aid Organizations."

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Income Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/011
  • Collection
  • 1946-1948

Records pertaining to Mennonite Research Foundation Project #1, a study designed to learn the annual incomes of a broad spectrum of (old) Mennonite Church members.  The rationale for the study was to determine whether Mennonite ministries were expanding beyond the means of church members, or whether the incomes of church members could justify greater expansion.  Materials include correspondence, income questionnaires from Mennonite conferences, reports, and miscellaneous materials.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Income and Giving Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/012
  • Collection
  • 1945-1953

This set of records documents the Mennonite Research Foundation's Project #25:  Mennonite Income and Giving, 1951.  Materials include tables, tabulations, correspondence, and questionnaires arranged by conferences, and miscellaneous financial materials contributed by congregations affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church.  The results of this study were published in the Gospel Herald on May 26, 1953.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Family Census Records 1949-1956

  • US MCUSAA V/07/028
  • Collection
  • 1940-1963

Records pertaining to Project 13, Mennonite family censuses conducted in 1940 and 1949-1950.  Materials consist of reports written from the data and select data collected from the census.

Questionnaires from the family census were discarded.  Remaining are only typed cards organized by conference listing the names of the male head of household, occupation, age, and years of education.

Researchers will also find in this series the questionnaires from a related study of unmarried Mennonite women and a report written from the data collected. These surveys provide detailed quantitative and some qualitative data regarding the family, occupational, religious and social lives of single Mennonite women in 1956.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Employer Directory Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/032
  • Collection
  • 1953-1956

Correspondence, questionnaires, and the finished product of Project #29 -- The Directory of Mennonite Employers.  Also filed with these records are survey results and a report from Howard Raid's studies of practices and problems of Mennonite-owned businesses.

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Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Mennonite Educational Levels Data Cards

  • US MCUSAA V/07/035
  • Collection
  • 1950

Cards containing data regarding Mennonite men'sand women's level of educational achievement.  The data seem to have been gleaned from the Mennonite Family Census and transcribed onto cards for the convenience of those analyzing the data.  The cards record each subject's name, town of current residence, sex, year of birth, marital status, last year of school completed, attendance at a Mennonite school, occupation (farming or not farming[?]), and conference affiliation.  The cards are organized by conference.

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