Talk:Hans Herr

Origins of Hans Herr, research by Hanspeter Jecker
Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Magazine https://mennonitelife.org/about/publications/ published an article by Swiss researcher Hanspeter Jecker in their July 2019 issue (Volume 42, Number 3, pages 70-81) that argues Alas, the issues of the magazine are available on-line only to subscribers, so I cannot link to the material directly. Wjw1961 (talk) 17:12, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) Hans Herr and his brother Christian Herr did not come from Zurich, but instead from Blumenstein, in the canton of Bern,
 * 2) Their wives came from the Berner Oberland, from Latterbach near Erlenback in the Simmental in the canton of Bern,
 * 3) Their wives were Elsbeth and Margret Lötscher, a family with Anabaptist connections from as early as 1660,
 * 4) Anabaptist thinking came into the Herr family primarily through women, the mother of the Herr brothers and their wives,
 * 5) Hans Herr was born in 1650, and not 1639.