Mennonite Library and Archives
Bethel College, North Newton, KS

This page is a set of shortcuts to resources available at or provided by the MLA. It is not our main home page. It will probably grow organically over time.

Bethel College reference items

• Convocations 1972-
• Menno Simons lecturers 1953-present
• Bible lectures
• Peace lectures
• Commencement speakers
• Memorial Hall Series 1942-1965
• Alumni awards list
• Greer Visiting Artist series

• Mennonite Migration Charts 1949
• Mennonite Life Maps and Charts 1953
• Mennonite Maps and Charts ca. 1974?

Various church record books (not the Prussian ones)

• Karolswalde, Volhynia, church book notes
• Heinrichsdorf, Volhynia, Mennonite congregation
• Michelsdorf-Horodyszcze church book
• Swiss Volhynian church book number three
• Goessel, Kansas, Mennonite Brethren church
• New Hopedale Mennonite (Brethren) Church, Meno, Oklahoma (microfilmed in 1972)

See also the digitized Kansas newspapers link below.

• Evening Kansan-Republican 1917-1921 (contains Bethel Breeze)
• Christlicher Bundesbote 1882-1921
• Zur Heimath 1875-1881
• Halstead Independent 1883-1886
• Newton Republican 1882, 1884-1886
• Newton Kansan 1885-1889
• Newton Democrat 1885-1887
• Newton Anzeiger 1887-1889
• Kansas Chronicle 1888
• Newton Weekly Journal 1888-1889

Help with old German handwriting and print

Ten Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting

Miscellaneous useful reference links:

• Kansas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Kansas Historic Resources Inventory listing of all buildings and locations that have been surveyed for historic preservation purposes; this includes many more than are on the state register of historic places
• Kansas Memory, digitized photos and documents about Kansas, includes county plat maps
• Digitized Kansas newspapers (requires Kansas driver license)
• Ancestry.com accessed through Kansas Historical Society, requires Kansas driver license
• Heritage Quest, requires Kansas State Library Card
• Newton, Kansas, cemetery list
• Harvey County Historical Society digital collection at Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library

Some useful Mennonite genealogy links:

• 1772 West Prussian census
• 1776 West Prussian census
• 1789 West Prussian census
• Glenn Penner's Prussian village list
• Odessa archives Fond 6 (see MLA collection VI.30 for microfilms)