Building a Legacy

A valuable reference to genealogists, "From Prussia to Russia to North America: 300 Years" documents the early history of the Anabaptists, the Mennonites in Prussia, in the New Russia, and their subsequent migrations to North America, Brazil, Mexico, and other countries. Written as a concise history of the Mennonites in the Ukraine, it includes documentation of the southern Minnesota Quiring, Siemen, Harder, and Sawatzky families that settled in the Mt Lake and Butterfield vicinity.

As yet unpublished, the historical novel unfolds in 1780, written in this style to provide some literary license to recreate as accurately as possible the era in which our ancestors lived and raised their families. Names of the persons in this story have been changed as have the facts, in order to protect any known ancestors.