Mennonite Obituaries

GEDCOM of 27,199 Obituary Index Entries!

May 4 and 5 I drove the three hours north from Calgary to Edmonton to participate in the MHSA Annual General Meeting and associated workshops. 

While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet up with Al Rempel (no kinship that we've determined), who has recently done an amazing job of developing a Composite Mennonite Obituary Index for 27,199 obituaries published in four Mennonite periodicals and one community newspaper:

• Canadian Mennonite
• Der Bote
• Altona/Red River Echo
• Mennonite Brethren Herald
• Mennonitische Rundschau.

Those individual indexes appear in various print and screen locations already, but now you can conduct a simple or advanced search on all at the same time. 

Al's commitment to personal privacy is such that the index covers "only" those who were born 100 or more years ago and who have been deceased 20 or more years.

You can find it at Rootsweb.

15 July Update ... Our collection isn't 100% complete, but if you need a copy of an obituary, the MHSA has a sizeable collection of periodical issues for all the above (except the Echo) and many more. For a small fee ($10), we'll look up a specific record, scan it and send it to you. (If we don't have it, there will be no charge and we'll refer you to other possible sources.)

In kinship,
Judii