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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Limited interest to those who have Penna-German ancestry.,
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This review is from: Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks (Hardcover)
A book for people with German ancestry interested in genealogy. Transcribed from original records in Germany. Although I love this book most others would find it of little interest. It contains the names of a few hundred 18th Century immigrants from three or four selected areas of Germany to primarily Philadelphia, Pa. I suggest you look at the index in a library first to discover if an ancestor is listed. Though there are parts of the book with general genealogical information regarding the three areas covered, most is applicable to the individual immigrants. If you, like me, have an ancestor listed, the information on the other immigrants becomes fascinating as well since it is an eye into their lives before they came to America. The nice thing is, since it's in English you don't have to learn old German to read it. Besides an index to the immigrants there's one for the ships many of them sailed on to America as well.
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