The first one hundred years : an index of publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (1891-1990) including the yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society (1936-1966)
Chapters: THE OLD COUNTRY - homeland,Germans from Russia // GOING TO AMERICA - the decision to leave, leaving home, the voyage // PORTS OF ENTRY - Germans in colonial America, landing, finding a place to live, first impressions // A NEW LIFE - farming and homesteading, adventures in the west, artisans and laborers, factories and mines, women's work, the union movement // PUTTING DOWN ROOTS - communities, family, religion, schools, the world wars // PART OF AMERICA - German americans today, preserving the heritage, the Mair family // GERMAN AMERICAN TIMELINE
Summary
The German American Family Album traces the growth of that community from the first German to reach the New World in the year 1000 (his name was Tyrker and he was a companion of the Scandinavian seafarer Leif Eriksson) to the 7 million German Americans in this country today. In their own words--from diary entries, letters, interviews, and personal reflections--and with photographs and clippings culled from family archives and the press of the day, we learn of their life in the old country, of the decision to leave home, the often wretched trip to America, and the new life they found once they got here. Their three-centuries-long history of achievement in the United States is a moving and inspirational story. To see it and hear it through the eyes of the immigrant is an experience that makes history personal and immediate. [from Amazon.com]
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society; v. 30.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1991.
Distributed to members of the Pennsylvania German Society as a benefit of membership for the calendar year 1996, v.30.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-235) and index.
Summary
Chapter 1. A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad/ Recovery and Reconstruction/ Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration/ Destinations
Chapter 2. Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations/ The Case of the Northern Kraichgau/ Aristocratic Resurgence and Peasant Resistance/ Village Boundaries and Overcrowding/ Family and Village Migrations
Chapter 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania/ Community/ Ethnic Settlements/ The Role of the Church/ Stable Ethnics
Chapter 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative/ Radical Pietist Migrations/ The Case of the Moravians/ Migration and the Moravian Community
Chapter 5. Germans in the Streets: The Development of German Political Culture in Pennsylvania/ Germans and Pennsylvania Politics/ Thomas Penn and the Germans/ German Political Interests/ Penn's New Policy and the German Response
Chapter 6. The Structuring of a Multiethnic Society
Appendices: 1. Methods and Sources Used for Demographic Calculations in the Thirteen Colonies/ 2. Volume and Timing of Legal Emigrations from Southwest Germany, 1687-1804/ 3. Statistics for the Fifty-three Parishes Making Up the Northern Kraichgau Cohort of Emigrants t o Pennsylvania, 1717-1775/ 4. European Origins of German-Speaking, Radical Pietist Immigrants in Colonial America/ 5. German-Speaking Immigrants Eligible for Naturalization
