Psychic Roots is all about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery. Certainly chance or dumb luck sometimes leads us straight to a record kept in an improbable place, to an ancestor's second wife we didn't know anything ...
Like the original volume, More Psychic Roots contains a collection of stories and experiences contributed by genealogists the world over--hobbyists as well as professionals. Thus in these pages we have the insights of 225 ancestor hunters from such countries as Canada, Mexico, Germany, England, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course, the U.S.A.--all of whom discuss their experiences in ...
More Palatine Families, the sequel to celebrated The Palatine Families of New York, includes data on 316 Palatine families who arrived in New York and New Jersey 1717-1776, plus their European origins. It also includes some 1710 immigrants who returned to Germany, or whose destination is unknown, plus some additional discoveries on families of the Palatine immigrants of 1710. Material on ...
284pp. 9 pages of reproductions of original immigration lists; place index and Every Name index. 2000 (1989) This book by two of the best-known German migration researchers documents the German origins, in the Westerwald Region of southern Germany, of more than 265 individuals and/or families which emigrated to America in the mid-18th century. Their German ancestry is included and, in many ...
92 pp. 18 photos, maps, & illus; index. Representing 30 years of research, this study of the 1710 Palatine immigrants to Ireland includes documentation on 172 different surnames and for 33 of the families there is an added bonus - establishment of their German ancestry - making that vital but difficult link back into Germany. There is also an addendum on `possible' Palatine families ...