GRanDMA refers to the Genealogical Registry
and Database of Mennonite Ancestry. It is
the database that is searched with GRanDMA OnLine.
GRanDMA contains genealogical information on individuals,
most of whose ancestral lines can be traced to Mennonite and Hutterite communities in Prussia (now Poland) and South Russia (now Ukraine).
It is the product of collecting and merging data from thousands of family histories,
church records, obituaries, government records and other contributions.
Records of individuals include dates and places and are linked by relationship to parents and to children.
With genealogical software, these linkages lead to ancestry charts
and descendants' charts and from there to data mining for many sorts of reports.
The data are made available by paid
subscription, viewable
either
through online software or using standard genealogical software.
The GRanDMA database was first developed, under the
leadership of Alan F. Peters, by the
California Mennonite Historical Society (CMHS), starting with Alan's own extensive records.
Learn more in "Some History of the GRANDMA Database"
which was excerpted from a document prepared by Alan.
GRanDMA continues to expand through the addition of new information submitted by both regular users contributing family
information and skilled researchers who translate and research original documents. The data are reviewed and entered into the
database with the oversight of the GRanDMA Committee.
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