| 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 emigrants are frequently listed in Strassburger and Hinkes Pennsylvania German Pioneers, from which are drawn dates of arrival, names of ships, and other immigration evidence. The materials antedating immigration often indicate causes, dates of emigration, the emigrants 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. The materials cited after arrival in America generally identify the emigrant in connection with his place of settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania. - United States - Pennsylvania - |
| This is a collection articles pertaining to the European origins of Pennsylvania German immigrants. The twenty-four articles in the collection, nearly all translated and edited by Don Yoder from the German, originally appeared in the magazine Pennsylvania Folklife, successor to The Pennsylvania Dutchman. They are here gathered up in their entirety and published under the title Rhineland Emigrants, with a new Introduction by Professor Yoder and an index of names and ships. 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 immigrations. - Foreign/Ethnic - Germany - |
