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Benedict Brechbuhl, Hans Burkholder and the Swiss Mennonite migration to Lancaster County, Penna. : the Swiss emigration

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Author: Burkholder, Joseph C.

Date of Publication: 1927

--Lancaster County. Mennonites--Switzerland. Swiss Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Switzerland--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects. Swiss in Pennnsylvania. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 57-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

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Responsibility: compiled by Joseph C. Burkholder.

Author: Burkholder, Joseph C.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1927

Physical Description: 57-62 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 5

Subjects: Burkholder, Hans.; Brechbuhl, Benedict, - 1665-; Emigration and immigration; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mennonites - Switzerland.; Swiss Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 5 (1927), p. 57-62Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31

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The path to America : from Switzerland to Lancaster County

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Author: Grove, Myrna.

Date of Publication: 2009.

Call Number: 284.3 G919

Responsibility: written by Myrna Grove ; illustrated by Peg Knueve.

ISBN: 9781601262080; 1601262086

Author: Grove, Myrna.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Masthof Press,

Date of Publication: 2009.

Physical Description: 100 p. z; ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: Part I. The journey of Jacob Graf -- Part II. A stone house in the wilderness.

Summary: The book, enlivened with description and dialogue, is suitable for middle-school-age and older readers. The material is based on Grove's visits to sites in Switzerland and Germany as well as research done here. Chapters in Part I are set in Europe and recount the journey of patriarch Jacob Graf (1618-1683), whose roots go back to the 1500s in the Swiss canton of Zurich, where Anabaptism was born. Grove explains that, by law, everyone underwent infant baptism into the state church. But as adults, Anabaptists made a Christian commitment and were baptized again, a practice forbidden by the state. To avoid prosecution and persecution, Anabaptists fled to Germany and the Netherlands. They were united by a traveling Dutch priest named Menno Simons and eventually became known as Mennonites. Part II is set after Mennonites' arrival in America in 1710, when seven families -- Kendig, Meylin, Herr, Bauman, Miller, Funk and Groff -- arranged with William Penn's agents to participate in his Holy Experiment in what was then Chester County. An early building in the settlement was Willow Street's Hans Herr House, depicted on the book's cover by artist P. Buckley Moss. Inside the book are 30 pen-and- ink drawings by Ohio art teacher Peg Knueve. [from LancasterOnline]

Subjects: Anabaptists - Juvenile literature.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Juvenile literature.; Mennonites - Juvenile literature.; Swiss Americans - Pennsylvania - Juvenile literature.; United States - Emigration and immigration - Juvenile literature.

Additional Author: Knueve, Peg.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.3 G919

Trade in strangers : The beginnings of mass migration to North America

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Author: Wokeck, Marianne Sophia.

Date of Publication: c1999.

Call Number: 304.8 W847.

Responsibility: by Marianne Wokeck.

ISBN: 0271018321 (cloth : acidfree paper); 0271018348 (pbk.)

Author: Wokeck, Marianne Sophia.

Place of Publication: University Park

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c1999.

Physical Description: xxx, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Contents: 1. German long - distance migration / 2. The flow and composition of German immigration to the American colonies / 3. The trade in migrants / 4. The ordeal of relocation / 5.Irish immigration to the Delaware Valley / Conclusion : A model for the modern era / Appendix : German immigration voyages 1683 to 1775

Summary: "Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass trans-oceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind-a story that is familiar to most modern Americans." [from the publisher]

Subjects: United States - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.; United States - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.; Germany - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.; Germany - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.; Ireland - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.; Ireland - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 304.8 W847.

Across the Atlantic and beyond : the migration of German and Swiss immigrants to America

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Author: Haller, Charles R.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Call Number: 929.3 H185

Responsibility: Charles R. Haller.

ISBN: 1556136978

Author: Haller, Charles R.

Place of Publication: Bowie, Md

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: xi, 324 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Changes in German Surnames and Personal Names--Changes in City and Village Names--Mennonites, Quakers and the Settlement of Pennsylvania--The Wandering Menno Simons--The Beginnings of English Quakerism--William Penn's Travels in Europe--Early German Quakers: A Small Minority--The Frankfort Companie--Germantown and the Susquehanna Subscribers--Protestantism and Books: Driving Forces behind the German Migration--The Froschauer Presses of Zurich--The German Americans--The Land of Wars--Of Kings and Queens and Lesser Nobility--The Rhine as a Migration Route.

Subjects: German Americans - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Swiss Americans - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; United States - Emigration and immigration - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 H185

Palatines or Pennsylvania German pioneers? the development of transatlantic Pennsylvania German family and migration history, 1890's-1966

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Author: Hering, Katharina.

Author: Hering, Katharina.

Physical Description: 305-334 p.

Summary: This article situates the development of Pennsylvania German migration genealogy as a popular historical practice in time and ideological context, while contrasting perceptions of the role of the family in the nation in the US and in Germany. While Pennsylvania German family historians interpreted migration during the colonial period as a radical departure from the European past, German researchers, driven by voelkisch ideology, interpreted migration as a moment of separation from a mythical German nation. National Socialist efforts to claim Pennsylvania Germans as Germans and foster closer cooperation during the 1930s had little success. However, these efforts left a legacy of infrastructure and resources that were developed, transformed, and used by researchers after the Second World War, when transatlantic Pennsylvania German migration genealogy became one means of establishing cooperative ties in an international environment,

Subjects: Palatines.; Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.; Palatinate (Germany) x Emigration and immigration.

Contained In: In: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography v. CXL, no. 3, October 2016.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 PMHB v. 140 n. 3

The Dorlikon emigrants : Swiss settlers and cultural founders in the United States : a personal report by Konrad Basler

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Author: Basler, Konrad,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 973.0435 B315

Responsibility: Konrad Basler ; translated by Laura Villiger.

ISBN: 082042675X (alk. paper)

Author: Basler, Konrad,

Uniform Title: Dorliker Auswanderer.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Peter Lang,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: vi, 74 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Swiss American Historical Society publications, vol. 10

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Swiss Americans; Immigrants - United States; Thalheim an der Thur (Switzerland) - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.0435 B315

Lists of Swiss emigrants in the eighteenth century to the American colonies

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Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Responsibility: by Albert Bernhardt Faust.

Author: Faust, Albert Bernhardt,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1920-1925.

Physical Description: 2 v. facsims. 27 cm.

Notes: LCHS has vol. 1 only.; Vol. 2 compiled and edited by Albert Bernhardt Faust ... and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh.

Subjects: Immigrants - United States - Registers.; Swiss - United States.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 F267

Swiss emigrants & Huguenots Emigrants to the Palatinate & America and Huguenots in the Palatinate and Germany (In German)

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Author: Macco, Hermann Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1954

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405

Alternate Title: Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800, and Huguenots in the Palatinate and German

Responsibility: information compiled by the late professor Dr. Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachen.

Author: Macco, Hermann Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Salt Lake City

Publisher: Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [comp.],

Date of Publication: 1954

Physical Description: 6 vols.

Notes: Reel 404: volume 1, A-C; volume 2, D-G; volume 3, H-L; Reel 405: volume 4, M-R; volume 5, S-Z; volume 6, INDEX; Microfilm. Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of the Churgh of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1970 2 reels, 35 mm.

Subjects: Huguenots - Germany - Palatinate.; Immigrants - United States - Registers.; Registers of births, etc. - United States.; Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.; Palatinate (Germany) - Emigration and immigration.; United States - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405

Gottlieb Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754 : containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country

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Author: Mittelberger, Gottlieb.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 917.48 M685

Responsibility: translated from the German by Carl Theo. Eben.

Author: Mittelberger, Gottlieb.

Uniform Title: Gottlieb Mittelbergers Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J.J. McVey,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 129 p. : facsim. ; 21 cm.

Notes: With facsimile t.p. of original German ed.: Stuttgard : Gedrukt ben Gottlieb Friderich Jenisch, 1756.

Summary: "Mittelberger's travelogue provides a firsthand historic account of the misery and exploitation of German immigrants during the US colonial period. In his work, he tries to convince his fellow Germans not to immigrate to the American colonies, as the forfeiture of freedom, cost of money, lack of health, and loss of life are too exorbitant to risk and sacrifice. Although never an indentured servant, Mittelberger's written testament is one of several surviving historic works describing the hardships of the redemption system. His meticulous account of his sea voyage to the British Atlantic colonies and subsequent experiences in Pennsylvania has become academically notable, due to the scarcity in primary source material concerning several of the issues he details. Such topics include religious practices in colonial Pennsylvania, European passenger fares for children and adults, as well as the nature and consequences of epidemics on colonial era ships.The work is also noted for its lengthy discussion of sexuality and social mores, including an account of a bigamous threesome and the status of illegitimate children, as evidencing the religious and sexual tolerance of colonial America. Gottlieb Mittelberger traveled to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1750 on a ship primarily filled with poorer immigrants who would become indentured servants upon arriving in Philadelphia. Mittelberger was not a servant, and worked as a school master and organist for three years before returning to Germany in 1754." [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Mittelberger, Gottlieb - Travel - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.; Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.

Additional Author: Eben, Carl Theodor,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.48 M685

Gottlieb Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754 : containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad and unfortunate circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7300

Author: Mittelberger, Gottlieb.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 974.802812 M685

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Responsibility: translated from the German by Carl Theo. Eben.

Author: Mittelberger, Gottlieb.

Uniform Title: Gottlieb Mittelbergers Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J.J. McVey,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 129 p. : facsim. ; 21 cm.

Notes: With facsimile t.p. of original German ed.: Stuttgard : Gedrukt ben Gottlieb Friderich Jenisch, 1756.

Summary: Gottlieb Mittelberger (1714-1758) was a German author, schoolmaster, organist, and Lutheran pastor. He was best known for his work Journey to Pennsylvania (1756). Mittelberger's travelogue provides a firsthand historic account of the misery and exploitation of German immigrants during the US colonial period. In his work, he tries to convince his fellow Germans not to immigrate to the American colonies, as the forfeiture of freedom, cost of money, lack of health, and loss of life are too exorbitant to risk and sacrifice.

Subjects: Mittelberger, Gottlieb - Journeys - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.

Additional Author: Eben, Carl Theodor,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802812 M685

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