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Palatines to America German Genealogy Society
Researching German Speaking Ancestors


Germany, Austria, Alsace, Belgium, Brazil, Italy(South Tyrol), Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Ukraine


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P.O. Box 531096
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Columbus, OH 43214

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National Conference, 2024

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Salt Lake City, Utah Library Research Trip

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Our membership consists of persons at all levels of research beginners to professionals. Members are happy to help you and share information with you.

Our online databases some public, some members only, can connect you with other researchers seeking the same family names and hard to find information for your family. See link in top navigation bar.

The Palatine to America book collection is housed at the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), 96 S Grant Ave, Columbus, OH 43215. Phone:(614) 645-2275 

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Ancestor Charts

The Ancestor Charts 4 generations + are genealogy charts that PalAm members have submitted detailing their ancestry as far back as possible. If you are a new member of PalAm please submit your files.

This collection of charts reside in the Resource Center in Columbus, OH, but the index is available on this website under Databases at the top of this Homepage. Currently there are over 130,000 names in the Ancestor Charts.

Immigrant Ancestor Charts

The Immigrant Ancestor Register (IAR) is compilation of German heritage ancestors submitted by our members. 
This information is maintained in order to share genealogical research and to establish a record for future reference.
Members login to the members only area to download the form for submission.

IAR records are in a database in the members only section.

Ancestral Churches Project

Palam is starting to collect digital pictures* and short descriptions of ancestral churches of our members. Please send your submission with your national membership number to our EMAIL CLICK HERE  Picture(s) must be included with your information. Name is required, link to contact information optional.

Ancestral Church Example

New Hanover Lutheran ChurchNew Hanover Lutheran Church (2941 Lutheran Rd, Gilbertsville, PA 19525), 1st German Lutheran Church in America, is the American ancestral home church of the Jurg Michael Schweinhardt family.

Jurg Michael 1695-1760 and his wife, Eleonara Magdalena nee Eckert 1701-1784 emigrated from Baden-Wuertemberg around Jungholzhausen to America (Pennsylvania) landing at the Port of Philadelphia in 1732.

They arrived with 4 children:

  • Eva Catherine 1724-1769
  • Johan Georg Andreas 1725-1786
  • Eva Elisabetha Barbara 1727-1812
  • Georg Andreas Michael 1729-?1732 (never seen in the records again after his arrival)
  • Johan Georg 1731-1815.

 

Children born after their arrival and recorded in the New Hanover Lutheran Church Records were:

  • Johannes 1735-1798
  • Andreas 1737-1804
  • Hans Michael 1741-1748
  • Johan Mathias 1744-1747.

 

Jurg was a Deacon of the church and is buried under the back corner. The Schweinhardt family has been traced to their ancestral roots in Kunsbach, Baden-Wuertemberg in 1620. For more information, contact Carol Swinehart. Select webmaster in recipient list.

Please note if you have a subscription to ancestry.com and search the card catalog you will find that the New Hanover Church Records are online.

Free marriage records are listed at 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol8/pass817.html

New Hanover Cemetery is on Find A Grave. 
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1993571

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