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work_yc7hclidoragph767yh7pbjf2a	J C Stevenson	Changes in completed family size and reproductive span in Anabaptist populations	1989	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6696	592	69	Abstract The Anabaptist Amish, Hutterite and Mennonite peoples trace their origins to the Reformation. data collected during a study of aging in Mennonite population samples from Goessel and Meridian, Kansas, 1980, and Henderson, Nebraska, 1981, formed the basis of a cohort analysis in order to assess Thus, in this study, reproductive histories for women, representing population samples from one Nebraska The demographic data from the communities of Goessel and Meridian, Kansas, and Henderson, Nebraska, were taken as part of a larger reproductive histories for 233, 223 and 47 women from Goessel, Henderson and Meridian, respectively. Goessel, Henderson, and Meridian, the mean completed family sizes for The mean age at last birth fluctuates around the age of 34 for Meridian women, but decreases 7.7 and 1.6 years, respectively, from 1900 to The mean age at first birth decreased in later cohorts from both communities and significantly so for Goessel women although it is apparently 	./cache/work_yc7hclidoragph767yh7pbjf2a.pdf	./txt/work_yc7hclidoragph767yh7pbjf2a.txt