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    The Swiss Amish (Swiss German: Schwyzer Amisch) are a subgroup of the Amish that emigrated to the United States mostly in the middle of the 19th century...
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    with Swiss and Alsatian origins. As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have...
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  • Swiss Amish are notable for their yodeling which they took from their Swiss homeland. Yodeling is an important symbol of their particular Swiss Amish...
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    The Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. Amish rules allow marrying only between members of the Amish Church. The elderly do not go to...
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    Jakob Ammann (category Swiss Amish people)
    12 February 1644 – between 1712 and 1730) was a Swiss Anabaptist leader and the namesake of the Amish religious movement. The full facts about the personal...
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  • The Swartzentruber Amish are one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish. The Swartzentruber Amish are considered a subgroup...
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    The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an...
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    2017, about a quarter of the county's population (estimated 8,600) was Swiss Amish that settled in the Southern half of the county around Berne. The statute...
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    States with an Amish population in 2024 that consists of at least one Amish settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like...
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  • Bernese German (category Swiss German language)
    the Swiss plateau (Mittelland) part of the canton of Bern and in some neighbouring regions. A form of Bernese German is spoken by the Swiss Amish affiliation...
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    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...
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  • English instead. The Swiss Amish of Adams County, Indiana, and their daughter settlements also use a form of Swiss German. Swiss German is a regional...
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    Amish religious practices are reflective of traditional Anabaptist Christian theology. The Old Order Amish typically have worship services every second...
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    county seat is Washington. About 15% of the county's population is Amish of Swiss origin, as of 2017. After the American Revolutionary War was settled...
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  • literature on the Amish in the following field: Education, Health, Music and Tourism. There is also a list of list of literature in the article Amish. Biedrzycki...
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    Old Order Amish Community. This community of Swiss Amish was founded in 1968 and consisted of 13 church districts in 2014 and a total Amish population...
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    Nebraska Amish, also called Old Schoolers, are a relatively small affiliation of the Amish. They are the most conservative subgroup of Amish, indicated...
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    variety of Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States...
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    Alsatian German is spoken in the United States by a group known as the Swiss Amish, whose ancestors emigrated there in the middle of the 19th century. The...
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  • Buchanan Amish affiliation is a subgroup of Amish that was formed in 1914 in Buchanan County, Iowa. It is among the most conservative in the entire Amish world...
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    remains at the corner of Summit and Eben Streets. In the 1850's the Swiss Amish arrived in the region, and what makes them distinct is that they speak...
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    Sugarcreek, Ohio (category Amish in Ohio)
    beginnings were rooted in cheese production. Swiss immigrants arrived in the early 1830s and used the milk from Amish dairy farms to produce their cheese. In...
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  • Swiss Mennonite Conference (also Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz or Conférence Mennonite Suisse) is an Anabaptist Christian body in Switzerland....
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    Yodeling (category Swiss styles of music)
    major feature of folk music (Volksmusik) from Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany, and the Swiss Amish in the United States maintain the practice...
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    Old Order Anabaptism (category Amish)
    emerged in the second half of the 19th century among the Amish, Mennonites of South German and Swiss ancestry as well as the Schwarzenau Brethren and River...
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    from those of Swiss nationality. Most local residents who have Swiss heritage are of Anabaptist faith, or have Swiss Mennonite and Swiss Amish backgrounds...
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    Amish migration had largely ceased. Notable plain groups in the Anabaptist tradition are the Amish (Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Kauffman Amish Mennonites...
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    The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement...
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  • The Andy Weaver Amish, locally also called "Dan Church", "Dan Amish" or "Danners", are a conservative subgroup of Old Order Amish. They are more conservative...
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  • Anabaptism during the Swiss Reformation and the formation of the Amish community. In the 19th century, there was substantial immigration of Swiss farmers, who...
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