In a message dated 97-10-22 07:50:48 EDT, janiceaf@ix.netcom.com writes: > I forgot to say about the Moravians: I am not sure they are considered > Pennsylvania Dutch and the reason may be that they came from a region > called Moravia, now in - well, I'm not sure whether the Czechs or > Slovaks got Moravia in the latest rearrangement of borders, but it is > not in what is now Germany, and I'm not sure whether it ever was. But > the people are definitely ethnic Germans, not Slavs. Many Moravians were among the Pennsylvania Dutch settlers and are preperly included in that context--they arrived in Coloinial times and landed and lived in Pennsylvania. Joan Myers Young