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– Warren K. Deem

According to the 1990 federal census, approximately 52 million Americans-nearly one in four-have direct ancestral ties with Germany. Conditions in Germany were spurring German citizens to find a better life; war's devastation, heavy taxation, the need for land, hunger, religious quarrels, and persecution all contributed to the massive migration to America. Encouragement came from William Penn, proprietor of Pennsylvania, who visited Germany's Rhineland in 1671 and again in 1677, expressly inviting German citizens to come to Pennsylvania. Among the first arrivals was a group of Mennonites who reached Philadelphia in 1683. The first mass migration brought German immigrants from the Palatinate to New York.

Researchers are likely to find frequent reference to the area of the Rhineland called the Palatinate or the Palatine, and to "Germans from the Palatine." Historically, the southern border of the Palatinate has always been France; the eastern border is the Rhine River; the western and northern borders of the Palatinate have changed frequently. Click to Continue Article (offsite)

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Germans in the 1920 Adams County, Pennsylvania Census.
Instances of Bavarians (Germans) in the 1870 Adams Co, Pennsylvania Census.
Instances of Germans in the 1870 Adams Co, Pennsylvania Census.
Instances of Germans in the 1870 Berks Co, Pennsylvania Census.
Instances of Germans in the 1870 Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania Census.
Instances of those born in the Palatinate (Germany) in the 1870 Pennsylvania Census.
Zion Reformed Church Marriages in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 1765-1861
Zion Reformed Church Burials in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 1765-1861
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1757.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1756.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1750.
Emigrants from Baden-Durlach to Pennsylvania 1749-1755
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1749.
Palatines remaining in New Bern, North Carolina as of September 28th, 1749.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1748.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1747.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1746.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1745.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1744.
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory, 1743.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 4th September, 1728.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 24th August, 1728.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 16th October 1727.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 2nd October 1727.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 30th September 1727.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 27th September 1727.
Oath of Allegiance taken by Palatines in Pennsylvania to King George II, 21st September 1727.
Palatines who moved to the Tulpehocken Valley in Pennsylvania, pre 1727.
Palatines arriving in New York via London England in 1708.
Pennsylvania Naturalizations in Germantown, 1691.

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