Every line in this tree is Anabaptist or joined the Anabaptists. Anabaptism had two roots: Zurich 1525 (Swiss Brethren → Amish, Amish Mennonite, Swiss Mennonite) and Emden 1530 / Menno Simons 1536 (Low German Mennonite). See 1525 First adult baptisms in Zurich and 1536 Menno Simons joins the Anabaptists.
Swiss Brethren
The original Swiss Anabaptists (from Zurich, 1525). In Bern they were persecuted until 1798; refugees went to the Jura, Alsace, the Palatinate and America.
People: Bendicht Neuenschwander (fl. 1766)
Amish
Followers of Jakob Ammann after the 1693 split (Alsace). The Hochstetler, Mast, Miller/Mishler, Plank and Schrock lines came to Pennsylvania in the 1700s as Amish.
People: Abraham Mast (1802–1877), Abraham Miller (1766–c.1821), Anna Stutzman (fl. 1822), Barbara Mast (1765–1849), Christian Daniel Miller (c.1734–1777), Christian Hostetler (1801–1875), Christian Mast (fl. 1800), Christian Nisly (emigrated 1804), Daniel D. Miller (1806–1865), Jacob Hochstetler (1712–1776), Jacob Hochstetler (c.1666–c.1722), Jacob Mast (1738–1808), John Hochstetler (c.1735–1805), John Hostetler (d. 1807), Joseph Hochstetler (c.1746–1812), Michael Schrock (1782–1860), Nathan Smiley (1797–1872), Veronica Mishler (c.1736–1785)
Amish Mennonite
19th-century progressive Amish congregations in Ohio and Indiana (e.g. Oak Grove) that later joined the Mennonite Church. The Ramseyer, Smiley, Conrad, Schrock and Plank families.
People: Alvin C. Ramseyer Sr. (1880–1948), Barbara Kaufmann (1779–1844), Barbara Reich (1826–1894), Christina Gerig (1832–1909), Daniel Jacob Conrad (1798–1882), Daniel Ramseyer (1856–1942), David Schrock (1858–1903), Eli D. Miller (1835–1913), Jacob Conrad Sr. (1757–1829), Johannes Ramseyer (1780–1853), John Smiley (1822–1879), Joseph Plank (1834–1914), Mary Conrad (1825–1912), Mary Mast (1837–1908), Moses Schrock (1828–1909), Peter Ramseyer (1822–1880), Rebecca Smiley (1856–1932)
Swiss Mennonite
Non-Amish Swiss and Jura Anabaptists who emigrated in the 1800s (Putnam County, Ohio; Berne, Indiana). The Neuenschwander, Lehman, Stauffer, Sprunger and Reusser families.
People: Anna Fuhrimann (b. 1788), Anna Maria Lehman (1825–1886), Catharina Fuhrimann (1782–1853), Christian C. Sprunger (1860–1940), Christian P. Neuenschwander (1812–1884), Christian Stauffer (1802–1892), Elizabeth Stauffer (1855–1919), Jacob C. Neuenschwander (1848–1921), Jakob Reusser (1840–1916), Johannes Neuenschwander (1776–1838), Peter Lehman (1782–1861), Peter R. Sprunger (1825–1898), Rosina Reusser (1862–1950), Verena Habegger (1822–1894)
General Conference Mennonite
The denomination of the Berne and Bluffton congregations and of Bethel College; Rev. A. J. Neuenschwander was a vice-president.
People: Andrew J. Neuenschwander (1888–1972), Anna Bertha Wiebe (1914–2010), Bessie Sprunger (1889–1964), Edmund G. Kaufman (1891–1980), Edna Ramseyer Kaufman (1910–2001), Ruth S. Neuenschwander (1922–2017)
Mennonite Church
The ‘Old’ Mennonite Church (Gospel Herald); D. D. Miller’s and the later Oak Grove families.
People: Alvin C. Ramseyer Jr. (1921–2008), D. Paul Miller (1917–2018), David D. Miller (1889–1976), Fanny H. Plank (1857–1942), Maggie Mae Kuhns (1890–1970), Mary Ellen Schrock (1886–1972), Noah E. Miller (1860–1910), Sophronia Elizabeth Hummel (1861–1935)
Low German Mennonite
Dutch/North German Mennonites who settled the Vistula delta from the 1530s, then Russia, then the Plains. The Wiebe, Fieguth, Claassen and Toews lines.
People: Abraham Busenitz (1739–1787), Anna Gertrude Claassen (1878–1971), Anton Fieguth (1772–1844), Aron J. Wiebe (1845–1922), Gerhard A. Wiebe (1873–1942), Gerhard Fieguth (1823–1896), Gertrude Toews (1850–1943), Jacob Toews (1819–1877), Jacob Wiebe (c.1815), Johann Claassen (1840–1886), Maria Fieguth (1847–1890)
Reformed
The state church of Bern (from 1528) and of Zurich. Ancestors born before their family joined the Anabaptists were baptized Reformed; the Holmes County Gonsers appear at the Salem Reformed Church.
People: Anthony G. Gonser (1817–1887)
Lutheran
Some urban Prussian Mennonites (e.g. Adam Wiebe’s son) became Lutheran.
Catholic
The Low Countries’ faith before the Reformation.
About this research
Supporting documentation is linked throughout. This project is an exercise in AI-assisted research and development, and I haven’t manually verified every link or conclusion. All transcriptions and translations of Swiss parish records were made with AI, and their accuracy should be treated accordingly.