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Cornelius Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.349
  • Collection
  • 1800-1850

Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.

The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.

Next is a 17 page family history section.

Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.

Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.

Then several blank pages.

Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.

238-242: weather chart

258-266: remedies for horse diseases

272: recipes for gilding glass and leather

283: diary notes

288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses

292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.

Voth, Cornelius, 1762-1836

Jacob Wall Diary

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.443
  • Collection
  • 1824-1860

Wall's diary 1824-1860 of events in his region. Also a listing of births, deaths, etc. mentioned in the diary, compiled by Glenn Penner. The title "Record Book of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement 1824-1860" also seems to have been used for this document, although it isn't really an accurate description.

Wall, Jacob, 1807-1860

Peter Hamm (1850-1900) fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1874

This fonds consists of a diary written by Peter Hamm describing the life of his parents and grandparents and documents births, marriages, and deaths of family members. Portions of this diary related to the journey from Bergthal Russia to the East Reserve, Manitoba were copied by his son Bernhard Hamm.
Bernhard’s journal is in Mennonite Heritage Archives Volume 2047.2. Another family member whose materials are also at the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Volume 1748) is Peter’s first cousin, Andreas Hamm (1863-1936).

Hamm, Peter, 1850-1900

Heinrich Ratzlaff

Heinrich Ratzlaff's diary about his trip from Russia to Canada to the USA, 1874-75, with a few details about his youth. [In handwritten German Gothic and a typed English translation.]

Ratzlaff, Heinrich, 1848-1922

Mahala Yoder Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/012SC
  • Collection
  • 1871-1876

Two typescripts of a diary kept by a young Amish woman who resided in McLean County (Dry Grove Township) Illinois, near Bloomington.  Yoder, who was confined to her home because of illness, describes in great detail the social life and courtships of her siblings and the day to day activities of her family.  She also reports her opinions of the goings-on in her family and her community as well as her reflections on her illness.

Yoder, Mahala, 1850-

Jacob D. Epp diaries

Microfilm #189
Jacob D. Epp diary. - 1851-1853. (diary No. 1)
Volume 1016
2 Photocopy of Jacob D. Epp diary. - 1851-1853.
Volume 2169
1 Original Jacob D. Epp diary. - Dec. 28 1859 - May 10 1871. (diary No. 4)
Volume 4639
1 Transcription of the Jacob D. Epp diary. - Dec. 28 1859 - May 10 1971.
Volume 1016
3 Jacob Epp diary. - May 11 1871 - Dec. 9, 1880 . (diary No. 5). NOTE: The diaries listed to this point have been translated and edited by Harvey L. Dyck in the published book A Mennonite in Russia : The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp 1851-1880 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Volume 4639
3 Original Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp Family, 1870-1890. (diary No. 6) Extraction of marriages recorded in this diary prepared by Ted Harder.
Volume 2432
4 Transcription of the Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp, Family. 1870-1890.
Volume 4639
4 Translation and photocopy of original Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp Family

Epp, Jacob D., 1820-1890

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