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European History

Brigham Young University

2002

Swiss Americans

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Special Feature: The Swiss In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Novelist Tracks Early Settlers, Sue Duffy, Perry Baker Nov 2002

Special Feature: The Swiss In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Novelist Tracks Early Settlers, Sue Duffy, Perry Baker

Swiss American Historical Society Review

While writing three novels from her comfortable brick home in Lexington, Carol Williams lived many lives in the 18th-century backcountry of South Carolina. Writers do that sort of thing. To tell the story of Swiss immigrants in the lands along the Saluda and Congaree rivers, the author became the hunter, the farmer and the soldier desperate to survive in a severe and glorious wilderness.


Special Feature: The Swiss In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Response To Kristina Marcy's "Review Essay", Carol Williams Nov 2002

Special Feature: The Swiss In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Response To Kristina Marcy's "Review Essay", Carol Williams

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Like most white South Carolinians of my generation, I have various strands of European ancestry: Scots-Irish, English, German, Swiss, and since my name is "Williams," probably Welsh by way of England, then Ulster. However, it was the Swiss strand that I was most conscious of when growing up because I knew a little more about it. A grandmother often talked to us children about "our people," about "dear old Grandfather," whose own grandfather had come from Switzerland in the mid-eighteenth century: George Sightler (Seitler, Siteler, Sitler); and we had a written history of his family in South Carolina.


Review: Tritt Family History. Volume I: Ancestry, Life And Times Of Brothers Hans, Peter, And Christian Tritt, Immigrants To Pennsylvania In 1739, And Their Children, Raymond S. Martin, Darvin L. Martin Feb 2002

Review: Tritt Family History. Volume I: Ancestry, Life And Times Of Brothers Hans, Peter, And Christian Tritt, Immigrants To Pennsylvania In 1739, And Their Children, Raymond S. Martin, Darvin L. Martin

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Although its contents are not directly relevant to family historians of Mennonites in Lancaster County , Pennsylvania, this top-quality history demonstrates how to organize, research, and present the story of a Pennsylvania German family with Swiss roots.