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From: "Eric Olson" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] PA Dutch people
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:20:43 -0800
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Charles,

Have read your exposition on German naming traditions. In the case I am
studying the firstborn girl was named after both grandmothers - paternal
then maternal, and the firstborn son was named after both his grandfathers -
again paternal then maternal. (First name then middle name.) Was this also
a common German (PA Dutch) naming tradition? Or perhaps something else -
say Dutch or Swiss? That is, is there a clue to geographical origin here?

Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] PA Dutch people


> 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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