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 The Palatine Migration Project aims to add and improve WikiTree content regarding emigrants from German-speaking Europe from 1700 until the American Revolution. These people were known colloquially as Palatines regardless of what part of German speaking Europe was their homeland. The Project coordinates the activities of WikiTreers who have Palatine migrant ancestors and/or would like to improve Palatine profiles.

Project members contribute in a variety of ways, through working on family groupings, cleaning up profiles, adding sources, merging duplicates and ensuring that the profiles reach the best standard possible. They also offer assistance to others working on Palatine profiles wherever possible.

If you would like to join the project we would love to have you.

Please post an answer below including your research interests and what you would like to work on.

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My mother's family has Mennonite roots in the Palatine on both her mother and father's sides.   They fled religious persecution in Switzerland and found it for a while in Germany. William Penn convinced them to come to the colony of Pennsylvania.  But then Penn died and they faced ethnic discrimination in Pennsylvania by the English governor as well.

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Hi I am introducing myself to the project -my name is Branwen Temple- I am a descendant of Johann Conrad Weiser and Straub- also Burkhard Moser. And through my maternal line, Libor Winter through my paternal grandmother- all from Pennsylvania.I'd say 75% of my roots coming into the US were through this migration. I would love to do more research with it as I have spent hours on research already and I absolutely can't stop! I have built a tree of 11,000 on Ancestry that started with Straub and I ran into some dead ends that were very frustrating -because I knew there was so much more to discover. Anne Boleyn who is my 22 degree connection on the Temple side of my family comes around with that through genealogy -its facinating!- I am comfortable with German research, places and names-and I want to go further with my own-

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Hi Branwen,

I'll add the project badge to your profile and contact you with further details.

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Dave,

It appears Mary Grubs (Grubb), is part of the "Palatine" migration and is also 4th or 5th Great Grandmother.

Douglas Duggar

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Hi Douglas,

If you are interested in contributing to our project, please send me a private message and I'll get you set up.

Dave

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I am Jeffrey Rudd, great-grandson of Engelbert Dold.

Born in Freiburg, Breisgau, BadenWürttemberg, Germany.

Died on October 24th 1925 in Belleville, Saint Clair, Illinois, U.S.A.

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Hi Jeffrey,

The Palatine Migration Project focuses on German immigration in the 18th century, prior to the American Revolution.

Your ancestor arrived too late for this project, but you could contact the Germany Project.

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I have a lot of German ancestors who have sort of attestation that they participate in the revolutionnary war

But I am so bad at looking in United States registries.
I think I would need a course on this

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Are you interested in joining the project?

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Actually, I have a lot of Palatine in my ancestors...
I would like to understand more of their stories

What made them move to Scotland and United States

But I just don't understand how you can do the research without mixing things up, when you don't speak or read the langage and you don't have the mother's maid name

If someone can teach me how to do it, I can try

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I'll send you a private message.

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Danke ! 

Answer 1

Hi All

     This is by way of an introduction to the group 

     This is my Palatine immigrant ancestor Joh. Nicolaus Hornig (Everything is listed and sourced at Hornig-32) and his wife, Anna Maria Hoffman(Hoffman-2128). He is my 5X Great-Grandfather (8 degrees removed from me. He and his wife immigrated to the New York colony in the 1709-1710 migrations. Please add me to the Palatine Migration group. I am interested in which other family members were also descended from Palatine immigrants and how and where they lived in New York before spreading out across the country.

     The Horning (as they came to spell it) family is in my mother's maternal line. Her mother's surname was Anna Irene Horning. I used cut and paste to show what I have on the immigrant ancestor, but I am very interested in this whole era of settlement in New York. 

Nicolaus (Nicholas) "Joh. Nicolaus Hornig" Horning formerly Hornig aka Honich, Hornig, Horning

Born about 1680 in Leimen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Son of Hanß Valten Hornig and [mother?]

Husband of Anna Maria (Hoffman) Hornich — married 27 Jan 1705 in Leiman, Rhine-Neckar, Baden-Wurttemberg

Father of Johann Adam Hornich, Johann Daniel Hornich, Anna Catharina Horning, Magdalena (Horning) Gerlach and Johann Dietrich Horning Sr. [add child]

Died before 28 Mar 1768 before about age 88 in Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York Province, British Colony in America

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Answer 2

I have discovered many references to ancestors from this area and want to explore this project.

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Answer 3

Hi, I would like to join this project! I have a few ancestors that are being managed already and this is an area I'm less familiar with researching. I want to kind of get out of my comfort zone and learn more about this side of my ancestry. I'm also open to working on profiles outside of my line and in general, just want to learn more about the individual people and the history of the migration.

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Answer 4

I am Bartley-1530 and am interested in joining the project. I am a long-time genealogist, just beginning to learn more about the workings of WikiTree.  I grew up in the Hudson Valley where many of my Palatine ancestors settled, mostly in West Camp, but a few went to Schoharie. Among the NY names are Sax, Karker, Wolven, Mosier, Trumbour, Becker, and others. A few of my Palatines went to PA as well, among them Boyer, Dumbauld, and Warner/Varner. Although I have studied some of these families for many years, there is *always* more to learn.  --Dawn

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Answer 5

My Trout family came in the 1600's. My Harvey family was in Germany then migrated to Ireland then migrated to America. My Gundrum family came from Germany to England and then to America.  So all 3 of my families should be in Palatine Migration.  Linda

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Hi Linda,

I see that you are already a member of our project.

I don't see any Gundrum's or Harvey's managed by our project. If you know of profiles for them on WikiTree, I can add them.

And if the Trout's arrived in the 1600's they would be part of the William Penn project.

Answer 6

My ancestors include numerous Palantine immigrants to Colonial Pennsylvania. I'm fairly new to WikiTree and have worked mostly on Ancestry. I hope to learn more and, perhaps, fill in some of my gaps.

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Thank you!