Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry In The United States New 4 Books

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Schlegel's American Families of German  Ancestry in The United States
Four Softbound volumes  totaling
1638
pages. Books are in  new condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is a reprint of the largest collection of  German-American genealogies ever published, a full-blown compendium of family  history and biography unknown to all but a handful of specialists. The first  three volumes were published somewhat inopportunely between 1916 and 1918, with  a fourth volume added in 1926. Each volume was limited to 200 numbered and  registered copies, and consequently only a dozen or so three-volume sets can be  located today, while the fourth volume is all but unknown. This is a complete  paradox, for like similar compendia by Virkus and McKenzie, this work should be  available to all students of genealogy and should be the very first resource for  anyone researching German-American ancestry.
Unlike other great compendia, however,
Schlegel
doesn't just start out with the immigrant ancestor; rather, each family history  usually begins two or three generations back, examining the family in its  historic setting before bringing it forward to the immigrant ancestor and his  descendants in America. Averaging about ten pages in length, including portraits  and coats of arms, the family histories are no mere catalogues of births,  marriages, and deaths but are rich biographical and genealogical studies, each  depicting the education, service, achievements, life, and career of the various  family members, and each tracing the roots of the first four or five generations  in America, usually commencing in the 18th or the 19th century, naming thousands  of related family members.
Of all the information-rich sources of German-American  ancestry, none is this comprehensive or as useful to the researcher, as  illustrated by its coverage of the following families:
Ackermann, Aichmann, Altenbrand, Ammann, Auer, Barkhausen,  Bauer, Baumann, Becker, Bender, Bermel, Biertuempfel, Boos, Bossert, Brandis,  Braunstein, Breidt, Broking, Burger, Cordts, Cronau, Dangler, Dannenhoffer, de  Kalb, Deck, Dippel, Dittenhoefer, Dochtermann, Dornhoefer, Doscher, Draesel,  Dreier, Dressel, Drewes, Dreyer, Eichacker, Eichhorn, Eimer, Engelhardt,  Espenscheid, Faber, Faller, Fink, Fischer, Flammer, Focht-Vogt, Frank, Frey,  Fritz, Froeb, Funk, Gaus, Gobel, Goebel, Goepel, Golsner, Grell, Gretsch,  Groborsch, Gunther, Hauenstein, Haug, Haupt, Haussling, Havemeyer, Hechtenberg,  Hecker, Helwig, Hering, Herkimer, Herlich, Herrmann, Hoecker, Hoffmann, Jaeckle,  Jahn, Janson, Junge, Just, Katz, Keene, Kern, Kessler, Kiefer, Kircher, Kirsch,  Kleinert, Kline, Kny, Kobbe, Kochersberger, Koelble, Komitsch, Korth, Kost,  Koster, Kraemer, Kramer, Kroeger, Kuhn, Lafrentz, Lamprecht, Lausecker, Leisler,  Lexow, Liebmann, Limbacher, Lohse, Lotz, Luckhardt, Luhrsen, Lutz, Marquardt,  Martin, Maulbeck, Maurer, Meeker, Mehlin, Mende, Meurer, Meyer, Mielke, Mietz,  Moeller, Moser, Mueller, Muhlenberg, Muller, Naeher, Nissen, Nungesser,  Oberglock, Offermann, Otto, Pedersen, Peter, Pflug, Poppenhusen, Prahl, Rasch,  Rath, Reichhelm, Reisinger, Reppenhagen, Reuter, Ridder, Riedman, Ries, Ringler,  Roehr, Runkel, Ruoff, Sauerwein, Schaeffer, Schalck, Schering, Scherrer,  Schieren, Schill, Schilling, Schissel, Schlegel, Schlitz, Schmelzer, Schmidt,  Schmieder, Schneider, Scholzel, Schortau, Schrader, Schroeder, Schultz,  Schumann, Schurz, Schwarz, Sebold, Seyfarth, Sigel, Solms, Specht, Spengler,  Stadler, Steiger, Steil, Steingut, Steinway, Stemme, Stengel, Steubner, Steurer,  Stiefel, Stier, Stohn, Strebel, Stuber, Stutz, Stutzmann, Sutro, Thumann,  Vogeler, Vollweiler, vom Hofe, von Bernuth, von Briesen, von Steuben, Wahlers,  Weber, Weimar, Weismann, Weitling, Wendel, Wenk, Wesel, Wilhelms, Wintjen,  Wischmann, Wolffram, Zaabel, Zechiel, and Zobel
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John R. Swanton
Volume  totaling
726
pages. Book is in new condition. Per the publisher;
This is the definitive one-volume guide to the Indian tribes of  North America, and it covers all groupings such as nations, confederations,  tribes, subtribes, clans, and bands. It is a vast and impressive digest of all  Indian groups and their historical locations throughout the continent. Formatted  as a dictionary, or gazetteer, and organized by state, it includes all known  tribal groupings within the state and the many villages where they were located.
Using the year 1650 to determine the general location of most of  the tribes, Swanton has drawn four over-sized fold-out maps, each depicting a  different quadrant of North America and the location of the various tribes  therein, including not only the tribes of the United States, Canada, Greenland,  Mexico, and Central America, but the Caribbean islands as well. According to the  author, the gazetteer and the maps are "intended to inform the general reader  what Indian tribes occupied the territory of his State and to add enough data to  indicate the place they occupied among the tribal groups of the continent and  the part they played in the early period of our history. . . ."
Accordingly, the bulk of the text includes such facts as the  origin of the tribal name and a brief list of the more important synonyms; the  linguistic connections of the tribe; its location; a brief sketch of its  history; its population at different periods; and the extent to which its name  has been perpetuated geographically. As far as possible each tribe, or group, is  treated as an independent entity, but the work as a whole forms an absolutely  comprehensive picture of the Indian tribes of North America, and leaves no  question unanswered about any tribal grouping, big or small.
Along with the bibliography and index, and the imprimatur of its  original publisher, the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology,  Swanton's book is an authoritative digest of the Indian tribes of North America,  and it is the one book that you'll need as a desk reference in your Native  American research.
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