Author: Henry Z. Jones
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ISBN: 9780929539096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: John O'Hart
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Henry Z. Jones, Jr.
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ISBN: 9781792311079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Henry Z. Jones
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ISBN: 9780897253949
Category : Palatine Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sir Robert Edwin Matheson
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Henry Z. Jones
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806315249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Anecdotes involving the paranormal and supernatural in genealogical research.

Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Annette K. Burgert
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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284pp. 9 pages of reproductions of original immigration lists; place index and Every Name index. 2000 (1989) This book by two of the best-known German migration researchers documents the German origins, in the Westerwald Region of southern Germany, of more than 265 individuals and/or families which emigrated to America in the mid-18th century. Their German ancestry is included and, in many cases, exactly where they settled in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Philip L. Otterness
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America. They journeyed down the Rhine and eventually made their way to London, where they settled in refugee camps. The rumors of free passage and land proved false, but, in an attempt to clear the camps, the British government finally agreed to send about three thousand of the immigrants to New York in exchange for several years of labor. After their arrival, the Palatines refused to work as indentured servants and eventually settled in autonomous German communities near the Iroquois of central New York.Becoming German tracks the Palatines' travels from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York. Philip Otterness demonstrates that the Palatines cannot be viewed as a cohesive "German" group until after their arrival in America; indeed, they came from dozens of distinct principalities in the Holy Roman Empire. It was only in refusing to assimilate to British colonial culture—instead maintaining separate German-speaking communities and mixing on friendly terms with Native American neighbors—that the Palatines became German in America.