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From: Charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] PA Dutch people
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:04:01 -0500
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Ken:

I am one. Almost 100% on all bloodlines. See my genealogical help page
on the PA Deutsch. While many PA Deutsch were "Palatines" and from other
German principalities, the PA Deutsch people are a mixture of several
german speaking peoples of Europe including Swiss and French Huguenots
too who settled in pre-Rev. War colonial PA.
http://www.kerchner.com/padutch.htm

Charles Kerchner
Emmaus PA

Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> Being 1/4 PA "deutsch" and having invested a little time in that line's
> origins, the Germans who went to PA prior to the American revolution (to a
> degree that a Revolutioary War PA legislature took a vote to establish
> "German" as the language of PA) came from the Palatinate, Baden Wurtemburg,
> and neighboring areas of SW Germany. I am sure others will step in and
> mention their PA "deutsch" ancestries from Bavaria and other parts of
> Germany outside of what I mentioned; but it is my impression the bulk came
> from the stated areas.
>
> Ken


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