Even More Palatine Families: 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins
- Author: Jones and Rohrbach
- SKU: 1752
- ISBN: 0897254546
- Our Price:
$195.00
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Description:
"To call these volumes a major contribution to research on 18th-century German immigrant families is an understatement. It and its predecessors are essential." -David L. Greene, The American Genealogist
"The genealogical and historical community need to thank Lewis Rohrbach and Picton Press for the patience and persistence in completing such a large project, which from conception to now covered 30 years. English-speaking researchers will be using it for at least that many years." - David J. Rempel Smucker, Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage
EVEN MORE PALATINE FAMILIES: 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss, and Austrian Origins, by Henry Z Jones, Jr., fasg and Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, cg. 2,424 pp., 3 volumes, 2,000 families, photos, maps, illustrations, 66,576 entry Every Name Index covering over 100,000 different entries. Smythe sewn and hard cover. 2002.
Drawing on a combined 80 years of experience, two of America's foremost genealogists bring you major new finds on literally thousands of German-speaking immigrants who came to North America between 1710 and the Revolution. Both authors have won the prestigious Donald Lines Jacobus Award and similar honors in the past. Their work here fully justifies their reputations, and the fine reputations of the other professional contributors such as Brigitte Burkett, Friedrich Wollmershäuser, Klaus Petry, and Hans Ulrich Pfister.
This massive 3-volume work contains 2,424 pages including an Every Name Index with 66,576 entries! It is an impressive sequel to Hank Jones' series of award-winning works on the 1710 migration, including the 2-volume Palatine Families of New York 1710 and More Palatine Families and to Lewis Bunker Rohrbach's award-winning books on German-speaking immigrants of the 18th century.
The contents are impressive and varied. The first volume contains a multitude of new discoveries 1717-1776 by Henry Z Jones Jr., fasg and others. The second volume is devoted to the first comprehensive study ever done of the 1710 Swiss and German settlers of New Bern, North Carolina written by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG. This second volume contains the entire story, with ship lists and the first few generations of descendants of all 1710 New Bern settlers. The third volume includes many important items published here for the first time including: the entire 1709 Rotterdam Departure Lists for all eight parties; the entire 1709-1717 Returnee lists of all five Palatine Parties returned to Europe; additional 1710 discoveries by both Henry Z Jones Jr. and Klaus Petry; the famed Hunter Lists of New York 1710-1713 transcribed by Marlene A. Groves, cg; the entire Nova Scotia Passenger Lists 1750-1752 transcribed by noted genealogist Brigitte Burkett; extensive new discoveries by Friedrich Wollsmershäuser including Salzburger Refugees 1750-1758, and even a newly-discovered 1725 passenger List! Of course, there also is the usual meticulous Picton Press Every Name Index, with 66,576 entries covering more than 100,000 separate entries, so that you can find, and use, this enormous amount of new research.
