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German Immigrants In Church Records In The State Of Kentucky, Deborah Mocke, Roger P. Minert, Phd
German Immigrants In Church Records In The State Of Kentucky, Deborah Mocke, Roger P. Minert, Phd
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this project was to assist in the furthering of German genealogical research, by making German Protestant church records in America more accessible to people with German ancestry. In the 2000 U.S. Census, nearly one in six people reported their ancestry as German. “42.8 million people (15 percent of the population) considered themselves to be of German (or part-German) ancestry,” making Germans the largest ancestral group in America. 1 Since the eighteenth century about seven million Germans immigrated to North America. The most challenging task in Germanic family history in the United States is the identification of the …