Download or read book Rhineland Emigrants written by Don Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles pertaining to the European origins of Pennsylvania German immigrants which originally appeared in the magazine "Pennsylvania Folklife," successor to "The Pennsylvania Dutchman." Virtually all the emigrants mentioned in this work are cited with reference to church, parish, and provincial records and other records located in the archival repositories of the old Palatinate and adjoining provinces in southwest Germany; and these emigrants are cited again, where possible, with reference to a corresponding range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, and tax lists. In addition, names of emigrants are collated with Strassburger and Hinke's celebrated "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," from which are drawn dates of arrival, names of ships, and other evidence of immigration.
Download or read book Rhineland Emigrants written by Donald Herbert Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roots in the Rhineland written by Christine M. Totten and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany to America and Other Countries written by Werner Hacker and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30,000 emigrant records appear in this volume featuring emigrants who left the areas of Rhine-Palatinate, Saarland, and Baden-Wurtemberg bound for America. Name, birth year (when known), place of origin, emigration date, profession, destination, and source are included. This collection was a retired judge over a 24-year period using immigration data, tax records, bondage release papers, bills,... (516pp. hardcover. Closson Press, 1994.)
Download or read book Roots in the Rhineland written by Christine M. Totten and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germans are among the oldest and largest ethnic groups. Surveys from 1979-1980 reveal that 52 million Americans trace their descent to German speaking countries.
Download or read book Emigrants from Rhineland Province Prussia Germany written by Uwe Kruse and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palatine Or German Immigration to New York and Pennsylvania written by Sanford Hoadley Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade in Strangers written by Marianne S. Wokeck and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.
Download or read book Pennsylvania German Immigrants 1709 1786 written by Don Yoder and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 1980 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lists making up this remarkable work try to identify German emigrants in their homeland and in Pennsylvania. Thus they are cited with reference to manumission records, parish registers, passports, and other papers of German and Swiss provenance, and noted again, where possible, with reference to an equivalent range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, and tax lists. The materials antedating immigration often indicate causes, dates of emigration, the emigrant's occupation, his dates of birth and marriage, place of birth and residence, and names of family members, sometimes with lines of descent for several generations.
Download or read book Emigration and Immigration written by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Bremen to America in 1850 written by Clifford Neal Smith and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compiler extracted the names in this Simmern Kreis/Rhineland-Falz booklet from two articles published in Germany in 1935 and 1938. In this work, the author has arranged the names of several thousand immigrants according to hometown of origin and, thereunder, by the county of destination. In most cases, we learn the emigrant's name, year emigrated, occupation, date of birth, and frequently, the city or state of destination.
Download or read book Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography 1538 1900 written by P. William Filby and published by Détroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company : Book Tower. This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited in BCL3, Sheehy. The new edition includes all the bibliographic citations from the first edition (1981) and its supplement (1984) and adds more than 750 new lists. It is arranged alphabetically by author, with lists included alphabetically by title when no author is known. Full publication inf
Download or read book German Immigration to Pennsylvania 1683 1933 written by Alfred A. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to provide an overall view of the role of the German immigrant in Pennsylvania over a period of two hundred and fifty years. It pursues to enhance a better understanding of German immigration to this vital, agricultural and industrial state. My thesis attempts to interpret the Pennsylvania-Germans in terms of their respective value to American, society and deals with various educational, sociological, political and economic questions confronting this selective group of immigrants. My thesis deals likewise with the argument of mass-immigration during the late nineteenth century and discusses the heterogeneous impact on the disruption, of a pre-existing Pennsylvania culture. To cast light on religious issues I have ventured to uncover the broad cultural trends of all denominations among Pennsylvania-German immigrants that affected American society as a whole, not merely those who happened to control political power. In regard to aspirations of achievement I have attempted to portray the German immigrants' adaptability to American customs as the key to success or failure. Moreover, I have placed emphasis on the polarities of conflict, unity and diversity that describe not only the American political system but also the cultural milieu upon which it is based. In this context I have also examined the political preeminence of the ruling elite which consisted mostly of male white Protestants. Suffice it to say that the Protestant aristocracy held all positions of power and prestige in Pennsylvania during the Colonial period. In the area of ethnic friction I have discussed the two major arguments raised by "upper class" nativists, primarily that the American economy could not absorb additional immigrants without depriving native workers of jobs, and secondly that hybridization would threaten the preservation of American purity. This critical issue obliged me also to discuss the subject of regional nativism in the interest of a better balanced view. Through the thematic arrangement of chapters I have presented the immigration and assimilation processes in chronological order, and I have exposed the principal aspects of the Pennsylvania-peasant culture in its true perspective. Supported by pertinent, primary evidence I felt justified in referring to the "Dutch" as a group of incorrigible, partly nationalistic minded Germans who conscientiously defied the progress of science, technology and Federal legislation. I have also displayed the notions and policies of the Federal government to control immigration for fear that the "admission of I and breeding with inferior stock would lead to racial suicide," During this broad and often detailed research I have been primarily guided by common sense, logical conclusions and obvious facts rather than by assumptions or interpretive biases of consulted authors. Moreover, my first hand studies and observations, and my familiarity with the Germans living in the farm belts of Pennsylvania provided excellent guidance. I foresee my conclusions may well be at variance with the findings of other researchers examining the broad aspects of the same topic. I am thoroughly convinced, though, that the role of the German immigrant within the structure of American society was always important, and should be viewed as a symbiotic relationship in which he competed with other groups for his livelihood and social improvement.
Download or read book Emigration and Immigration written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palatines Liberty and Property written by A. G. Roeber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians usually look for the origins of American political culture among English-speaking people and British constitutional and legal sources. Yet German immigrants to the colonies also contributed to - and developed for themselves - an American political consciousness. In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A.G. Roeber focuses on this neglected subject and explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources, Roeber explores German conceptions of personal and public property in the context of cultural and religious beliefs, village life, and family concerns. He follows all the major German migration streams, beginning with the Palatines in New York and including Germans who settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. Roeber's study of German-American ideas about liberty and property provides a unique perspective within a growing historiography on the transfer of culture and beliefs from Europe and Africa to America.
Download or read book Brave New World written by Johannes Herbergs and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the journal of a journey from the Rhineland of Germany to the colony of Pennsylvania made by Johannes Herbergs and Peter Heinrich Strepers in 1764 to recover the inheritance of land left to them by their grandfather, Jan Strepers. Extensive additional information about the history of the Strepers family, Jan Strepers' land purchase in Pennsylvania, and the dispute over Jan Strepers's estate are included. Also includes family trees of emigrants to Pennsylvania from the Rhineland, featuring thirteen families which departed the city of Krefeld in 1683 and which were instrumental in the establishment of Germantown near Philadelphia.
Download or read book How Rhineland Began written by Jeremy Myers and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where best to begin a story? In How Rhineland Began, the story begins at the beginning, as the ancient Biblical text did, allowing the story to unfold linearly. In 1892, a priest from St. Louis came to Texas to recover his health, but he spent his time, not convalescing, but gathering German-Catholic immigrants into like-minded communities, where the old ways could be preserved and the new ways tested. So, in 1895, after having his first colony, Windthorst, on secure footing, the Reverend Reisdorff went 70 miles west to start another community, this one called Rhineland, in honor of his and their homeland. Beginning again, as he would five times in Texas before he finally rested, the inde-fatigable priest, working with a land investor in Galveston by the name of J.C. League, opened 12,000 acres in North Texas to would-be settlers who desired for themselves a slice of the American dream. This is his story, in some part, but, in large part, it is their story, as the German settlers put the plow to the open prairie, turning it into productive farmland, the dream realized.
