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- Notes from George Shank's research:
This is all of the information that I have on Ulrich. Please note that under religion I list him as Anabaptist/Mennonite. The Catholic church referred to the people that had broken away as Anabaptists. This was because they did not believe in child baptism, but rather that people should be baptized as an adult. Individual groups of these people often referred to themselves by their leader's name. Such would be the case with Peter Waldo of Holland. He separated from the church is 1160 and his followers became known as Waldenses. In 1536 Menno Simon, also of Holland, became the leader of a branch of dissenters, mostly Dutch and Swiss, and they became known as Mennonites. Of course, the largest and possibly the best known of these groups is the Lutherans that followed Martin Luther.
I refer to Ulrich, his son Michael Sr., and grandson Michael Jr. as Anabaptist/Mennonite. After we came to America, starting with Christian b1588, I use the term Mennonite for religious affiliation. This will hold true up through Christian b1662. After that I am not always sure of a person's particular religious affiliation. It must be understood that once we started moving around in America that the chances of moving to an area that had your particular religion were slimmer and slimmer. This would be especially true if you moved as an individual family instead of as a group of families whether related or not. A group of families could simply start their own church and continue their religious practices. The individual family usually attended what ever church was in the area that they moved to. This is why you will find your family name associated with almost any mainline church in the country. Yes, this would include Catholic, the very group that we broke away from.
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