Castroville, TX has many Alsatian settlers. ----- Original Message ----- From: <harand8479@aol.com> To: <lynda@houseofwaterdancer.com>; <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] Newspapers, Literacy and Genealogical Research > was it New Alsace in Indiana? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynda L. Jones <lynda@houseofwaterdancer.com> > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:12 pm > Subject: Re: [A-L] Newspapers, Literacy and Genealogical Research > > > > I was surfing the Internet the other night looking for something I've since > orgotten and happened upon a site talking about an entire community in > merica of Alsatian immigrants. My computer crashed and darned if I can > ind my way back. Does this sound familiar to anyone? > I loved that website, Gloria. Thanks for posting it. > Best wishes, > ynda Jones > loomsburg, PA USA > > _____ > > . > eberstedt, Thüringen, Germany – home of the Uttrodts > amily names: Brong, Freitag, von Freitag, Miller, Prang, Savino, > chueller, Uetterodt, von Uetterodt, Utterodt, Uttenrodt, von Uttenrodt, > ttrodt, Ottrott, Van Etten, Van Horn > ollateral lines: Dwyer, Eltus, LaFrance, Prentice, Smith > . > > ----Original Message----- > rom: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com > mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Gloria Ishida > ent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:17 PM > o: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > ubject: Re: [A-L] Newspapers, Literacy and Genealogical Research > > do find this discussion interesting and not inappropriate because it > s, to my thinking, tied to our "German" roots in Alsace and Lorraine, > nd prior. > The first mass migration from Germany to the Americas began with the > Palatine" emigration of Germans to New York in 1709-1710. Emigration > rom Germany to the colonies grew until it hit its highest numbers in > he period 1750-1753, with many of the North American colonies in > irect competition in recruiting of Germans in Germany. Although the > erm "Palatine Emigration" has been applied to this migration in > eneral, the Germans were not only from the Palatinate (Pfalz) region. > hey were primarily from protestant parts of central and southern > ermany which had been heavily hit in the wars of the previous century. > Click thumbnail map showing areas where they primarily left from, > elow). > The above is taken from an interesting site including some map images: > http://www.progenealogists.com/germanemigration.htm > Germany was far from a state until the nineteenth century so we are > alking about German speaking people before then. Many of the settlers > o Alsace or those passing through travelled by the Rhine River, > specially from the Palatinate. There are personal genealogy sites that > ndicate immigrants from the Alsace area came as early as the early > 8th century to the US. > As far as German town names in the US (NY, etc.) the towns may be too > mall for us to know of, or else the names were changed, even as late > s at the time of WW I. > Since the German population in Pennsylvania at the time of the > evolution was substantial, it is logical that the "English" founding > fathers" were politically savvy enough to court the German speaking > opulation. > Gloria I > > > > > omaine de Curé > uxury Gîtes (vacation apartments) in centuries old farmhouse > ear Carcassonne, France > ean-Noël Ishida and Agathe Moréchand-Ishida > ttp://www.domaine-cure.com/ > - > esources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > uotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- > esources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > he message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message