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