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928 pages original lists, with signatures and marks Since its publication in 1934 almost two generations ago Strassburger and Hinke's Pennsylvania German Pioneers has been the cornerstone, virtually the bible, of all Pennsylvania German genealogical research. Its three volumes contain the verbatim passenger lists, including the original signatures, of virtually all of the 30,000 heads of German-speaking families who arrived in the port of Philadelphia during the fifty years prior to the American Revolution. The total of 65,000 passengers covered in these lists represent roughly two-thirds of all German-speaking immigrants who arrived in American during the almost one hundred years 1683-1775! Owning a set of Pennsylvania German Pioneers is absolutely essential to any research on German-speaking immigrants prior to the American Revolution! This is the first complete reprint of Pennsylvania German Pioneers. Also, our reprint includes a new Introduction by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG; corrections of the few lists incorrectly identified; and reference to the two lists not found in 1934. If you purchased the incomplete 2 volume reprint done in 1966 and reprinted in 1980, you will want to p

Author
Ralph Beaver Strassburger
Publisher
Picton Press, c1992
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9780929539973
Subjects
Political Science, Social_sciences

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