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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Requesting research guidance for a difficult problem
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:24:11 -0400
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Ralph Taylor wrote:
> I'm hoping that some of the wonderful and knowledgeable people on this list
> might point me in a direction to resolve (what I regard as) an almost
> insurmountable research problem. I need suggestions as to approaches which
> have some promise of success.
>
> I seek to find the European origins of a man who immigrated to America in
> 1742 aboard a ship out of Rotterdam. Other passengers aboard were Palatines,
> His age is given as 26 on the passenger list, yielding an estimated birth
> year of 1716; he was illiterate and died in Virginia in 1786.

A source of emigrations from the Pfalz is Werner Hacker's book
Auswanderungen aus Reinpfalz und Saarland im 18
Jahrhundert, K. Theiss, Stuttgart, 1987.

It is available from many libraries, Check WorldCat.

I concur with Joan Young's comments.
C is only used in imported words in German.

I also suggest that you join and ask on the PFALZ list.

bob gillis
>
> Let's call him "David CALE", though his name was more often spelled other
> ways: Keel, Kell, Schall, Kail, Kale, Kaile, Cail, Caile. The various
> spellings disguise the original language of the name; this is, perhaps, the
> most difficult aspect. I suspect that each writer of the name filtered it
> through his own linguistic barriers; pronunciation is more consistent than
> spelling.

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