The Derivation Of Family Names : THE DERIVATION OF FAMILY NAMES IS ALWAYS INTERESTING A Knowledge of Family Names is not only of passing interest but may be of great value to students and researchers. Names, as we know, undertake to make many changes, even in the same family, even today. "Pennsylvania German family names may be...
European Backgrounds Of The Germans Settled : EUROPEAN BACKGROUNDS OF THE GERMANS SETTLED IN PENNSYLVANIA THE HISTORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS is a most interesting subject. It began more than three hundred years ago, and the end is not in sight. One of many things to be remembered about the people called Pennsylvania Germans (or Dutch), is...
Pioneer Immigrants Were Farmers And Tradesmen : PIONEER IMMIGRANTS WERE FARMERS AND TRADESMEN Farmers Were Kept Poor.--The Pennsylvania German farmers were good farmers by practically all standards. They were descended through thirty generations of tillers of the soil. All things being equal in their Old World haunts they would have been...
Language And Education At First Neglected : LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION AT FIRST NEGLECTED, THEN PROMOTED German Language Remained with Newcomer.--Of the language and literature of the Pennsylvania Germans we had at best be brief--the students and scholars are still trying to define and settle the matter. The remarkable thing about the "dialect"...
Untitled : EARLY LIFE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS BY A. MONROE AURAND Title Page European Backgrounds of the Germans Settled in Pennsylvania Immigration Trends are Divided into Three General Periods Pioneer Immigrants were Farmers and Tradesmen Language and Education at First Neglected, Then Promoted...
Immigration Trends Are Divided Into Three : IMMIGRATION TRENDS ARE DIVIDED INTO THREE GENERAL PERIODS The German Immigration Into Pennsylvania was by far greater than in any of the other States previously mentioned, but, for the purposes of keeping the record straight, when we speak of the "Pennsylvania Germans" we might just as readily...
Religious Groups Were Numerous Before : RELIGIOUS GROUPS WERE NUMEROUS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION Variety of Faiths.--The religious background and life of the Germans is varied, to say the least. We have little space to detail them at length, but separate accounts may be found in libraries for particular readers. The German Baptists...
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