>Hi, I have been watching all the MISINFORMATION on here long enough. The >PA Dutch were German speaking immigrants from now Germany and Switzerland >that came to America in the 1700's at the invitations of the William Penn >folks. They did not come on Holland Dutch ships. They came down the Rhine >and boarded English ships and sailed to England were they waited, >sometimes a year, to cross to America. No ships from any other country >were allowed to land in English America. These facts are easy to support >on MANY web pages, just do a search for Pennsylvania Dutch. >I am 100% PA Dutch since my ancestor settled in Lancaster county, PA in >1752. He came down the Rhine to Amsterdam then to Plymouth England and on >to the port of Philadelphia. > >At 10:15 PM 05/25/2000 -0400, you wrote: >>A Good Source for translating German Language to English language: >>http://world.altavista.com/ >> >>If you translate Deutsch in German to English you get German. >> >>Many of the German settlers came to America on ships that were owned by the >>Dutch, but Dutch does not always mean a native of Holland. Dutch is the >>English pronunciation of the German word Deutsch, meaning German. When the >>word became a part of the written language of America the spelling >>conformed to the English manner. >>The words that follow are English words in the German Language: >>God - Gott >>God's Love - Gott lieb >>Saviour - der Heiland Retter >>Church - die Kirche >>Bible - Bibel >>sin - suende >>Nagel - nail >>I Love You - ich liebe dich >>child - das kind >>English - englich >>United States of America - das Amerika >>Do you speak German - Sprechen Sie Deutsch >> >>My (German) Booe Family arrived in 1738 in PA. >> >>C. Booe >> >>CBOOE@yadtel.net >> >> >>============================== >>Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >>RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >>http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi Dan Daniel Gensemer REINHOLD III Clinton Computer Consultants RR 4 Box 45 Mill Hall, PA 17751-9622 Voice phone (570) 748-3201 Internet dreinhol@cub.kcnet.org Founder of The Millbrook Playhouse. Go to: http://www.centredaily.com/justgo/onstage.htm Then page down and select Millbrook Playhouse. Founding member and President, Clinton County (PA) Genealogical Society http://www.kcnet.org/~history/ Reinhold Genealogy Homepage - http://cub.kcnet.org/~dreinhol/index.html and http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dreinhol Genealogical Surname Searching: REINHOLD, Lancaster County. PA, 1752 - now also variants REINOEL, REINHOLT, REINHOLDT, REINWALD AMWEG, WENGER, WALTER, GENSEMER, Lancaster County, PA, 1700s MUSSER, GLISSEN, - SE PA. 1840 - now MACK, MOCK,- NE PA, 1880 - now Shake any family tree and a few nuts will fall.