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From: Kirsten Saxe <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Swiss-Anabaptist group (was Mennonite Genealogy. . .)
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:05:32 -0400
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John,

I would imagine so, especially since in your later post you said that
your Neefe family pronounced the name Neff. Have you checked out the
link from John Rhodes' post? That Neff site implies that there are many
spellings and you might find good contacts there.

Kirsten Saxe

John Callahan wrote:

>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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