Weekend Savings on German Genealogy Publications
(Sale prices in effect through 11:59 p.m. EDT, September 19, 2016.)
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More
Americans trace their origins to the Germanic-speaking areas of Europe
than to any other country or ethnic group. German immigrants began
coming to the New World in earnest in the first quarter of the 18th
century, and they were the preeminent immigration group throughout the
whole of the 19th. Although Pennsylvania was the target of the first
large German emigration, eventually Germans flooded the ports of the
entire Middle Atlantic, and eventually the South Atlantic and Gulf
Coast. By the 19th century many first-generation German Americans made
their way to the American Midwest immediately after arriving at East
Coast ports such as New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, thanks to the
availability of railroad transport to cities like Cincinnati, St.
Louis, and Chicago. Before the great German auswanderung was
over, it encompassed Germans from Prussia and from German-speaking parts
of old Russia, many of whom chose to homestead in Wisconsin, the
Dakotas, and the Mountain States of the U.S.
This
weekend, you can stock up on some of the best reference tools in
German-American genealogy at savings of 40% or more. A number of these
titles, understandably, concern German settlement in Pennsylvania and
New York, while others examine Germans in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
Germans fought on both sides of the American Revolution, which is the
subject of another discounted book. We have also discounted the best
book around on German names and surnames. In short, no matter where your
German forebears originated or settled, or why, you will find a
terrific reference book waiting for you in this sale. Just be sure to
place your order before 11:59 p.m. EDT, Monday, September 19, 2016.
This CD contains images of the pages of all three volumes of Pennsylvania German Church Records, representing a distillation of all the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses
of the Pennsylvania German Society. The records, which refer to
approximately 91,000 individuals, include births, baptisms, marriages,
and burials and identify people and their relationships to one
another--not only parents and children, husbands and wives, but
witnesses and sponsors as well.
Was $39.99 Now $17.99
This
is the account of some 240 Prussian families who first migrated to the
Ukraine and then re-settled in Marinette and Oconto counties, Wisconsin.
The author furnishes the family member's year of birth, date of entry
into the U.S., country of origin, port of entry, and date of death, as
well as the name of his spouse, and her dates of birth and death.
Was $32.50 Now $18.95
In
this work the late Bruce Brandt and his father, Edward, provide the
surname of every German-speaking individual who appears in 13
authoritative histories--11 of them written in German--that document the
massive immigration of Germanic individuals to Eastern Europe. In all,
this work lists 19,720 surnames of German-speaking ancestors who
immigrated to Russia, Poland, Romania, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Was $25.00 Now $14.95
Just
as they had in New York, the Tulpehocken Palatines of the 18th century
had to negotiate with the Proprietors of Pennsylvania and the indigenous
population before they could take control of the lands promised to
them. The author discusses this in detail, while other chapters describe
the Palatine style of settlement and their flourishing farms, efforts
to construct the first churches and schools, Indian wars, and the
founding of towns and cities. Special consideration is given to the
lives and homesteads of the Palatine patriarchs Conrad Weiser, Daniel
Steinmetz, Isaac Levan, John Caspar Stoever, Reverend Tobias Wagner,
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, and others.
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Author
J. Hanno Deiler devotes the preliminary sections of this work to the
early German families and their settlements in Louisiana, while nearly
one-half of it lists, along with genealogical notices, the "Names of
German Habitants on Both Banks of the Mississippi Above New Orleans," as
based on the official census of 1724, and a roster of "Additional
German Names...Not in the [1724] Census." Other sections are devoted to
names in other censuses, Germans from Maryland, and Creoles of German
Descent. Over 2,000 names are contained in the 28-page index, which
lists every name in the book, with variant spellings.
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This
is an abridged edition of the best history in English of the German
troops (i.e., Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc.) who fought on
the British side in the American Revolution. Nearly 100 pages are
devoted to "A List of the Officers...1776-1783," which names about 1,500
men, arranged by regiment and thereunder by rank, with dates of service
and other records. Since many of these German "auxiliaries" were
captured and ultimately remained in America, this work should interest
many researchers with ancestors from the Revolutionary era. With indexes
to names and places.
Was $35.00 Now $19.95
This
work describes the Verein colonization in Texas, a movement that
brought thousands of German immigrants into Texas from 1844 to 1847. The
goal of the Verein movement was to create a settlement of German
immigrants on the 3,800,000-acre Fisher-Miller grant and in a number of
other places in Texas. Of special interest to the descendants of these
early Texas settlers is a list of over 4,000 immigrants compiled from
German and Texas ships' passenger lists. This list provides such
information as age, names of accompanying family members, place of
residence in Europe, name of ship, and dates of departure and arrival.
Was $27.00 Now $15.95
From
all sources researched, Mrs. Geue located a total of 105 passenger
lists, compiling therefrom this master list of 5,600 German immigrants.
Information includes age, family, residence in Europe, name of ship, and
dates of departure from Germany and arrival in Texas, as well as the
name of the county in Texas in which the immigrant settled. In addition
to the lists of immigrants, this work includes a brief history of German
immigration to Texas together with the names and a description of some
of the Germans who were in Texas before it became a Republic.
Was $27.00 Now $15.95
This
is a compilation of abstracts of articles, advertisements, and paid
notices that appeared in the five principal German newspapers published
in Philadelphia and Germantown from 1743 to 1800. The data covers death
notices, advertisements for runaway servants, notices of arrival and
removal in the Pennsylvania area, and notices placed by persons seeking
news of relatives and friends.
Was $28.00 Now $16.50
Primarily
a compilation of Reformed Church marriage records (with some Lutheran
and Union church materials as well), this work provides documentation on
some 50,000 persons of German origin or descent as found in the records
of approximately 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania. The records of
actual marriages, which form the basis of the work, generally give the
names of the bride and groom, date of marriage, names of parents, place
of residence, and, sometimes, place of origin, date of birth, and
previous marital status. Records of marriage, deriving from baptismal
entries, burial records, etc., variously give names of parents (usually
the maiden name of the mother), names of grandparents and sponsors,
place and date of birth and/or baptism, names of children, and date of
death.Was $70.00 Now $39.95
This third edition of German-American Names
by Prof. George F. Jones is longer than the earlier editions and has
several thousand more entries. Like its predecessors, it attempts to
explain the meaning of names borne today by Americans that derive from
the German language or its dialects. Moreover, it deals with the
Americanization of some of those names, explaining the social and
historical phenomena that contributed to the distinctive character of
German-American names. It deals as well with names many of us would
never have thought of as German.
Was $33.00 Now $19.50
Composed
of Salzburgers from Austria, Palatines from the southern Rhineland,
Swabians from the Territory of Ulm, and Swiss, the so-called Georgia
"Dutch" represented the largest ethnic group in Georgia in the mid-18th
century. In this revised edition, author George Jones has distilled a
lifetime of research into a single alphabetical list of some 3,500
Germans.
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