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The Amish largely share a German or Swiss-German ancestry. [83] They generally use the term "Amish" only for members of their faith community and not as an ethnic designation. However some Amish descendants recognize their cultural background knowing that their genetic and cultural traits are uniquely different from other ethnicities.
This is a list of notable Amish and their descendants, including both those who lived or are living culturally as Amish or Amish Mennonite as well as those who recognize themselves culturally as Amish or Amish Mennonite descendants but may or may not practice Anabaptist beliefs.
The Amish settlement in Daviess County, Indiana with a total Amish population of 4,855 people in 2017 was originally settled mostly by Swiss Amish but switched to Pennsylvania German language over time. [13] [14] A large Swiss Amish settlement was founded in 1968 near Seymour, Missouri. It consisted of 16 church districts in 2017 and a total ...
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
Due to anti-German sentiment between World War I and World War II, the use of the Pennsylvania Dutch language declined, except among the more insular and tradition-bound Plain people, such as the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites. Many German cultural practices continue in Pennsylvania in the present-day, and German remains the largest ...
For the Amish people, Rumspringa means something completely different than what you often see in popular media.
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Born to German father and Swedish mother Lived in Omaha Democratic U.S. Representative from Nebraska from 1911–1919 Frederick Metz: 1832–1901 Immigrated from Hesse-Cassel, Germany in 1851 Lived in Omaha Co-founded Metz Brewery in 1864 Nick Nolte: 1941- Grandson of German Born in Omaha American actor John Louis Nuelsen: 1867–1946