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by Bigfoot
Sat Apr 18, 2026 12:32 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What Do You Regret Is Gone From MD?
Replies: 202
Views: 32196

Re: What Do You Regret Is Gone From MD?

Hi BF, at one point Bootstrap had an archive of some stuff from MD as well - perhaps you could merge the two. Interesting. It might be possible to merge them. is there a way MN could acquire these 2 forums? Yep. I've already gave another person access to a backups of mennodiscussarchive.xyz.
by Bigfoot
Sat Apr 18, 2026 8:01 am
Forum: Other
Topic: What Do You Regret Is Gone From MD?
Replies: 202
Views: 32196

Re: What Do You Regret Is Gone From MD?

Hello, With the help of AI, perhaps about 160,000 MD posts were gotten from archive.org. They are now in a temporary forum https://mennodiscussarchive.xyz/index.php Due to it being an archive, signup to this forum has been disabled. Unfortunately it does not contain every user or post that was on MD...
by Bigfoot
Fri Feb 06, 2026 11:01 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Russian Molokans
Replies: 12
Views: 12869

Re: Russian Molokans

A group of them in Canada were in a sect called “Dukhobors”. The Canadian government did a variety of disgusting things to them, such as seizing their children and putting them in residential schools. The parents could only see them through a chain link fence. The Doukhobors are actually quite diff...
by Bigfoot
Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:21 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Conservative Anabaptist Church Finder & Information
Replies: 398
Views: 491969

Re: Conservative Anabaptist Church Finder & Information

Are there any conservative anabaptist churches in Italy?
Maybe near Florence, Naples, or Rome?
by Bigfoot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:52 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: German Classes
Replies: 48
Views: 4470

Re: German Classes

Do you want to speak Deitsch with Amish people or speak German with Germans or read modern or older German texts? Good point probably generally modern German, but there are certain older texts that might be interesting to read. Pennsylvania Dutch is a German dialect that was primarily oral and not ...
by Bigfoot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 5:19 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: German Classes
Replies: 48
Views: 4470

Re: German Classes

Do you want to speak Deitsch with Amish people or speak German with Germans or read modern or older German texts? Good point probably generally modern German, but there are certain older texts that might be interesting to read. If you want to learn modern German, Language Transfer German (https://w...
by Bigfoot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:58 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: German Classes
Replies: 48
Views: 4470

German Classes

Forgive me, as this might be a silly question. I know of a church that ( I think with in the last 10 years) has had German sermons and classes to learn German. I think has since stopped both, but I’m wondering is there any Amish / Mennonites that offer German classes / lessons ( to non members, I’m ...