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this file includes papers relating to early Anabaptist history, the origins of the Kleine Gemeinde, family histories of Duecks, Goossens, Pletts, Friesens, and other pioneers and leaders, as well as his article “Mennonites in Russia Studies Seminar”. Some of these articles will have been written for his columns

(some poignant passages): “Footprints of God in Ninety Years of History,” “Chairman’s Report,” “Sunday School Fifty Years Ago,” “Our first Jugendverein,” “Beginnings of the Eden Mental Health Centre,” and one sermon “The Incarnation” in which he explains a point of theology; added is the opening program of the new “Altenheim” in Steinbach, likely Resthaven

PJB Reimer’s articles about the coming of the Mennonites to Manitoba, and their background

: articles about the town in southern Manitoba featuring the 1950 and 1979 Red River Floods; a list of names of evacuees and the families with whom they found refuge, 1950; “The 25th Anniversary of the 1950 Flood at Rosenort”; in the Red River Valley Echo “1950 Rosenort flood recalled”; “The Epic of a Great Flood”; “The Early Pioneers of Rosenort on the Morris River”; a page listing names of families who were insured in 1880 in Rosenhoff and Rosenort, translated after 1968; includes several drafts for his column “Rosenort Nachrichten”; a map of the area (Lisgar), 1961; and 3 papers related to Rosenort, but not written by Reimer

records in faint pencil the children of the person who recorded the data Anna Doerksen (1854-1937) and her husband Martin Barkman (1853-1900) with dates that start with 1853 and end with 1910 [related to Aganetha B. Reimer]; 1910.

5 articles clipped out of Steinbach Post, 1961; and 2 handwritten articles from the same envelope, topics undiscerned.

mostly an array of notes about Kleine Gemeinde pioneers of the Steinbach and the Rosenort-Rosenhoff areas. [Some of these notes may have led to the article “The Early Pioneers of Rosenort on the Morris River” in File #1, Series 4.] Included is a 9-page translated-into-English account of the Heinrich Ratzlaff’s family wherein Martin Warkentine [Martin Warkentin] is mentioned

an assortment of notepapers indicating PJB Reimer’s interests and skills regarding tracing family histories, including the genealogy of Martin Warkentin, Franz Kroeker, Brandts, Harms, Isaaks, and many others. Some details are jotted down on serviettes.

[It may have been written by one of PJB Reimer’s sisters]

“abgeschreiben Jan. 20/1932 von P.D. Friesen, Steinbach, Man.”, which is a copy of a letter written in 1912 by “Alt Jakob M. Kroeker (Jacob Kroeker), Rosenhoff” to his children; 1932.

photocopy of a transcribed diary that does not name its author or its transcriber. It begins in Rosenfeld, Borozenko Colony, Russia. [It was likely written by a member of PJB Reimer’s family before he or she emigrated to Canada: Klaas Reimer and Martin Barkman are mentioned, and others]