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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.

Records of an (old) Mennonite Church study of Mennonite income and giving to the church in 1956.  Includes interpreative reports by Melvin Gingerich and Velma Shank, returned questionnaires and income statements, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials.  The Christian Stewardship Study was designated Project #35 by the Mennonite Research Foundation.

Records pertaining to the decision-making, finanical, and other administrative aspects of the research agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include founding documents, publicity materials, meeting minutes, budgets, financial reports, newsletters and other publicity materials, and correspondence of the executive director and treasurer.

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.

Miscellaneous records pertaining to a number of research projects undertaken by or in consultation with the Mennonite Research Foundation. Some projects were not completed.

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.

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."

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.

Correspondence, collected stories, and miscellaneous records pertaining to Project #2, a book by Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman for juveniles entitled Coals of Fire.  The book contains stories illustrating Christian nonresistance and the Golden Rule.

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.

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.

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.

Project 28, the Laymen's Study, concerns itself with congregational constitutions, budgets, and stweardship. The study was proposed by Laymen's groups in the (old) Mennonite Church, who were seeking opportunities for Mennonite businessmen to assist in congregational administration and development. Records include questionnaires, correspondence, reports, and the 1950 constitution of Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.), which was examined as a model constitution.

Records pertaining to Project 24, a survey of World War I Mennonite conscientious objectors. Records include correspondence, lists of conscientious objectors, and questionnaires.

A small set of records consisting of correspondence to obtain sets of Mennonite conference minutes and a typewritten manuscript of the Index of Mennonite and Amish Mennonite Conference Resolutions by Delbert Erb, 1951. Researchers interested in using the index as a reference tool may find a copy in the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Ind.) or the Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen reading room.