Does anyone know if there were in the mid to late 1800's a great number of Alsatian families that immigrated to Freeport or Stephenson County in general? My Alsatian relative did and I would be interested in who else might have found that in their family. Originally my 2nd gr grandfather went to Canada from Alsace, but then he came to Freeport.

The Aurand(t) family orginated in Alsace, moved to Holland then into Germany and in 1753 came to PA, and 1843 to Stephenson Co. (by then most of the family had dropped the 't' from the orginal spelling). Ellie Susan Schlosser wrote: > Does anyone know if there were in the mid to late 1800's a great number > of Alsatian families that immigrated to Freeport or Stephenson County in > general? My Alsatian relative did and I would be interested in who else > might have found that in their family. Originally my 2nd gr grandfather > went to Canada from Alsace, but then he came to Freeport. > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/