Pennsylvania German TreasuresPart I: A Memorial Tribute to Isaac R. Horst (1918 2008); Part II: Plant Names of the Pennsylvania Germans in Pa. Dutch, Latin, and English Old Order Mennonite Isaac R. Horst of Ontario, Canada, certainly contributed widely to the study of the Pa. German dialect and culture. Part I includes his writings in Pa. Dutch with English translations, as well as sketches of objects he encountered on the Canadian farm, which he prepared for use in the

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The records printed in this volume include the name of every white male over the age of sixteen (living in Pennsylvania)

Frequent surnames: DeTurk

useful statistical information

000 entries)

made for many surprises along the marital journey

to the Descendants of Ira Samuel Johns and Elizabeth Rickert Johns

Included for each immigrant is the Palatine village of origin

It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850)

marriage dates and location

early settlement of Germany

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