Jacob Hostetter (d.1761), a Mennonite and a bishop, immigrated in 1712 from Switzerland to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Oswald Hostetter (1702-1749), also a Mennonite, immigrated in 1732 from Switzerland to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana and elsewhere.

Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.