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The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptist and Mennonites, many of whom are most noted for their avoidance of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity.
Amish children are expected to follow the will of their parents in all issues, but at the age of sixteen they come of age and may lead a lifestyle of their own choice.
The strictest Amish groups are the Nebraska Amish and the Swartzendruber Amish.
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 Amish Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptists and Mennonites, many of whom are noted for their avoidance of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity.
As Mennonites, the Amish are descendants of the Anabaptist followers of Menno Simons (ca.
The Amish reside in close-knit communities in 22 states of the United States as well as Ontario, Canada.
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The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptists related to the Mennonites most of whom are noted for avoidance of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity.
This strict literalism brought a division of the Mennonites in Switzerland in 1693 and led to the establishment of Amish branch of Mennonites.
Amish children are to follow the will of their parents all issues but at the age of they come of age and may lead lifestyle of their own choice.
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 Amish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptists related to the Mennonites, most of whom are noted for their avoidance of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity.
Amish couple in a horse-drawn buggy in rural [[Holmes County, Ohio, the site of the one of the largest concentration of Amish in the United States]] As Mennonites, the Amish are descendants of the Anabaptist followers of Menno Simons (c.
In 1997, a young Amish woman in Milverton, Ontario, Canada was struck in the face by a beer bottle believed to have been thrown from a passing car; she required thousands of dollars' worth of surgery to her face (which was paid for by an outpouring of donations from the public).
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 ipedia.com: Amish Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Amish children are taught at an early age (by modern 21st century standards) to work hard.
Amish that leave the old ways often remain near their community, and in general, there are levels of progression as Amish or Mennonites leave their religion behind them.
On July 28, 2004, UPN began airing Amish in the City, a reality television series which involved five Amish teenagers being installed in a house in the Hollywood Hills to experience "English" culture and to decide at the show's end whether to rejoin their own culture.
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 Amish - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Amish who leave the old ways often remain near their communities, and in general, there are levels of progression from strict Amish to more liberal groups (usually Mennonite).
Amish children are expected to follow the will of their parents in all issues, but when they come of age, they are expected to make an adult, permanent commitment to the church.
Amish lifestyle is dictated by the Ordnung, which differs slightly from community to community, and, within a community, from district to district.
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 Amish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Amish are divided into separate fellowships consisting of geographical districts or congregations.
Amish quilts are made from scraps of worn clothing and therefore, incorporate those colors.
Amish Acres, an Amish crafts and tourist attraction in Nappanee, Indiana.
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Swartzentruber: A Mennonite family name, Swartzendruber is Swiss in origin and may mean "seller of fl grapes." In the early 1700s a family Bible used the spelling Schwarzentraub.
A Christian Schwartztrauben is mentioned in the Dutch Naamlijst of 1767-1802 as a preacher at the Weissemheim am Berg congregation (Amish) in the duchy of Leiningen, Germany.
A Christian Schwarztrauben, also Amish and by marriage related to the Gingerich family, lived at Mengeringhausen near Kassel and had taken over the "Galgenmühle" from Simon Roth.
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 Swartzendruber Amish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Swartzendruber Amish are an Old Order Amish sect that formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Holmes County, Ohio, Amish in 1917.
The Swartzentruber name was applied later, named after bishop Samuel Swartzentruber who succeeded him.
It is thought to mean "seller of fl grapes." Other English spellings of the name include Swartzentruber, Schwartzendruber, Schwarzentruber, and Schwarztrauber.
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 Amazon.com: "Jacob Swartzendruber": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
These leaders, including Jacob Swartzendruber, first Amish bishop in Iowa, were able to call on a long-standing tradition of patriarchal household authority in European Christianity,...
The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910 (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by Steven D. Reschly
But two years later, at the close of the war, Bishop Jacob Swartzendruber included voting in his plea to remain aloof from politics: "Our people should all keep themselves apart from all party...
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