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From: John Callahan <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Swiss-Anabaptist group (was Mennonite Genealogy. . .)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:03:41 -0400
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I have Neefe's in my family, from Pennsylvania, who came originally
from southern Germany. Do you suppose that the Neefe spelling could
be a variation of the Neff surname?
Thanks
On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Pat Hickin wrote:

> There are/were Naffs in Franklin Co., VA, who were Dunkards.
>
> Pat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirsten Saxe" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Swiss-Anabaptist group (was Mennonite
> Genealogy. . .)
>
>
>> Do you know if Neff is a Mennonite name? My mother is not PA
>> Dutch, but
>> we found this name in her ancestry and the line came from Southern
>> Germany. I got back to the town, and then another genealogist shared
>> some information from the work of two German genealogists.
>> Apparently
>> my Neff family traces to Switzerland. When I got the first death
>> certificate with the name Neff, my mother told me that she had
>> noticed
>> the name on day trips to PA Dutch (German) country. We were there on
>> vacation this summer and there is a Neffville or Neffsville and there
>> are some businesses using the name.
>>
>> Kirsten
>>
>> Bonnie Schrack wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marianne,
>>>
>>> I see that Hal has just beaten me to it, but I will still send this
>>> (slightly modified) message which I was in the midst of composing
>>> when
>>> his arrived. You wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> To Tim Janzen :
>>>>
>>>> Tim I see you have been invloved with Mennonite genealogy. I
>>>> have some
>>>> grandparents that were Mennonites on my father's side of the
>>>> family.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Wenger line that was in Switzerland ca 1680-1749.
>>>> They went
>>>> to Zweibrucken, provence of Germany and then moved to Lebanon
>>>> County and
>>>> Franklin Counties in, PA..They moved on through the years to to
>>>> Botetourt Co, VA to TN, IL, and IA.
>>>>
>>>> The surnames are Wenger, Shirk, Burkhard, Gingrich, and Huber.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Tim answered you with some good information about the projects he is
>>> involved with, which as he said, are not focused on Swiss
>>> Mennonites,
>>> but I'm surprised that he did not mention the new Swiss Anabaptist
>>> project (which I've discussed with him), that Hal and I have
>>> started.
>>> Here's a link to our project website:
>>>
>>> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Anabaptist
>>>
>>> "Anabaptist" refers to all the church traditions, such as Amish,
>>> Mennonite, and Brethren, which share a common root in the "Radical
>>> Reformation" on the continent, rejecting infant baptism, the state
>>> church, military service, etc.
>>>
>>> All of the family names you have mentioned are just the kind we
>>> have in
>>> mind to be part of our project, and I very much hope that all
>>> the folks
>>> you have recently gotten in touch with, will join our project.
>>>
>>> You then wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Bob Haskins and I have the same grandparents in Johannes (Hans)
>>>> Wenger
>>>> and Caspar Shirk and Verena Burkhardt in Switzerland going back to
>>>> 1600's. His mtDNA is H15 and he has joined Tim Janzen's group.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> He has joined our project as well! We are happy to have people
>>> who have
>>> either mtDNA or Y-DNA lines that go back to Swiss Anabaptist
>>> origins.
>>>
>>> Here's our project profile/join page, listing some of the
>>> surnames we've
>>> thought of that are commonly Swiss Anabaptist:
>>> https://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?
>>> code=L81851&special=true
>>> (I have just added a few names and spellings that you have
>>> reminded me
>>> of.)
>>>
>>> Currently our project members include the surnames:
>>> Brenneman
>>> Brubaker
>>> Eash
>>> Egly
>>> Gerber
>>> Good
>>> Habegger
>>> Hostetler/Hochstedler
>>> Hoover
>>> Kauffman/Kaufman
>>> Nofziger
>>> Schrack
>>> Stahly
>>> Stauffer
>>> Weaver
>>> Yoder
>>> and others.
>>>
>>> I also administer the Huber/Hoover project:
>>> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hoover/
>>>
>>> Currently in that project we have 19 men who have been tested,
>>> representing about 12 or 13 different Hoover or Huber lineages.
>>> There
>>> are a lot more lines we need to have represented, above all those
>>> who
>>> have a well-documented genealogy! My maternal grandfather,
>>> Calvin Bryce
>>> Hoover, was a member of the E3b line, which settled in Rockingham
>>> Co.,
>>> Virginia, probably from Lancaster Co., PA.
>>>
>>> I look forward to hearing from you if you'd like more information on
>>> either project, and I hope some of your Wengers and other
>>> relatives will
>>> be able to get tested and become members!
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Bonnie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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