Sources
The basis for the reconstructed lists for Pennsylvania are the Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Ralph B. Strassburger & William J. Hinke (FHL #974.8 B4pg v.42-44), which includes mostly lists of heads of households or adult men who arrived in Philadelphia from 1727-1808. The following sources are heavily used in the first version of this database because they give extended family information (from German Church records) and include a ship index. They include much more information than what is used in these reconstructed passenger lists, and anyone interested should consult them. Links to where they can be purchased are included below:
| Abbrev. | Authors' Names | Titles of Books and Publication Information |
| Bur1983 | Burgert, Annette Kuntzelman | Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. I: The Northern Kraigau. Breinigsville, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1983. [Currently out of print. Annette K. Burgert holds copyright for this volume.] |
| Bur1985 | Burgert, Annette Kuntzelman | Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. II: The Western Palatinate. Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985. |
| Bur1989 | Burgert, Annette Kuntzelman and Henry Z Jones Jr. | Westerwald to America: Some 18th Century German Immigrants. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1989. |
| Bur1992 | Burgert, Annette Kuntzelman | Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992. |
| Bur1996 | Burkett, Brigitte | Emigrants from Baden and Württemberg in the Eighteenth Century: Vol 1: Baden-Durlach and Vicinity. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996. |
| Bur2000 | Burgert, Annette Kuntzelman | Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 2000. [Available from AKB Publications, 691 Weavertown Road, Myerstown, PA 17067-2642.] |
| Yod1980 | Yoder, Don. | Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: List Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980. Reprinted from issues of The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society 1936-1951. (Württemberg, Zweibrücken, Schaffhausen, & Wertheim) |
The following sources are being added to the online passenger lists, but it will take more time since there is no index to the ship names in these books:
| Abbrev. | Authors' Names | Titles of Books and Publication Information |
| Hac1980 | Hacker, Werner | Auswanderungen aus Baden und dem Breisgau : obere und mittlere rechtsseitige Oberrheinlande im 18. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: K. Theiss, 1980. (Baden and Breisgau) |
| Hac1983 | Hacker, Werner | Kurpfälzische Auswanderer vom Unteren Neckar : Rechtsrheinische Gebiete der Kurpfalz. Stuttgart: K. Theiss, 1983. (Lower Neckar-Palatinate) |
| Hac1987 | Hacker, Werner | Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: K. Theiss, 1987. (Rheinpfalz & Saarland) |
The following additional sources will be used in the future, and added references from these sources will be included from time to time:
| Abbrev. | Authors' Names | Titles of Books and Publication Information |
| Boy1980 | Boyer, Carl, Jr. | Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware, 3rd. Newhall, California : C. Boyer, 1980. (Hessen-Dillenburg, and other articles) |
| Trinity | Braun, Fritz & Frederick S. Weiser | Marriages Performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1748-1767, in Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol 7. Kaiserlautern, Germany: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1973. |
| Broermann, Karl | "The Emigration of the Mülheimers to Pennsylvania: Both a Local and German Culture Picture from the 17th Century," Zeitschrift des Geschichtsvereins Mülheim a.d. Ruhr. Vol. 32, Dec 1938, No. 3. Translated by Rosalie N. Castleberry. Original Title: "Die Auswanderung der Mülheimer nach Pennsylvanien: Ein heimatliches und zugleich ein deutsches kulturbild aus dem 17. Jahrhundert." | |
| BurAff | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | A Century of Emigration from Affoltern am Albis, Canton Zürich, Switzerland. Worthington, Ohio: AKB Publications, 1984. |
| BurGim | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Brethren from Gimbsheim in the Palatinate to Ephrata and Bermudian in Pennsylvania. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 1994. |
| BurLang | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Langenselbold in Hesse to America. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 1997. |
| BurPfun | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Pfungstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt to Pennsylvania. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 1995. |
| BurEpp | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Emigrants from Eppingen to America in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 1987. |
| BurGross | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Grossgartach, Wuerttemberg to Pennsylvania: Some Early Colonial German Immigrant. Myerstown, Pennsylvania: AKB Publications, 1999. |
| BurWolf | Burgert, Annette Kunselman | Pennsylvania Pioneers from Wolfersweiler Parish, Saarland, Germany. Worthington, Ohio: AKB Publications, 1983. |
| Clarke | Clarke, Jane Adams | “Some Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Höchst in dem Odenwald,” Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2000), pp. 157-184. |
| Ehmn | Ehman, Karl | Die Auswangerung in die Neuengland-Staaten aus Orten des Enzkreises im 18. Jahrhundert. Sudwestdeutsche Blaetter fuer Familien- und Wappenkunde, special supplement. Stuttgart: Verein fuer Familien and Wappenkunde in Wuerttemberg und Baden, 1977. |
| FB1920 | Faust, Albert Bernhardt & Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh | List of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies. Washington D.C.: The National Genealogical Society, 1920-1925. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1976, 1991. (Zürich Canton 1734-1744, Bern Canton 1706-1795, and Basel Canton 1734-1794) |
| Gieg1988 | Gieg, Ella | Auswanderungen aus dem Odenwaldkreis, Michelstadt and Lützelbach: Neuthor-Verlag, 1988-1997. 5 vols. (Hessen) |
| Hac78 | Hacker, Werner | "Auswanderer aus dem Territorium der Reichsstadt Ulm," Ulm und Oberschwaben 42/43 (1978) |
| Hum1 | Humphrey, John T. | Early families of Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.: John T. Humphrey, 1991. |
| Humphrey | Humphrey, John T. | “Establishing the German Origins of Several Northampton County Settlers,” Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2000), pp. 185-207. |
| Jones, Henry Z. | The Palatine Families of New York, 1710. Universal City, CA: Henry Z Jones, Jr., 1985. 2 vols. | |
| Krebs | Krebs, Friedrich | Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American Colonies in the 18th Century, Pennsylvania German Society Special Study, 1. Norristown, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953. |
| Krebs2 | Krebs, Friedrich | “Annotations to Strassburger and Hinke’s Pennsylvania German Pioneers,” Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2000), p 55-72. |
| Kuby | Kuby, Alfred Hans | "Die Leute von der Snow 'Ketty,'" Pfälzer - Palatines by Karl Scherer, (Kaiserslautern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981), pp. 78-95. |
| LeVan | LeVan, Russell George | Early Immigrants from Germany and Switzerland to Eastern Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1990. |
| Niepoth, Wilhelm | "The Descent of the 13 Emigrants from Krefeld to Pennsylvania in the Light of lower-Rheine Sources," Die Heimat: Zeitschrift für niederrheinische Heimatpflete, Vol. 24, No.1-2, 1953. Translated by Rose Adele Gwynn, 1989 (FHL 943.43 W2n) and John Brokie Lukens, 1980 (Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 31, No.3, p.201). Original title: "Die Abbstammung der 13 Auswanderer von Krefeld nach Pennsylvania im Lichte neiderrheinischer Quellen." | |
| Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker | The Settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania to North America. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1899. | |
| Smith-Hess | Smith, Clifford Neal | Emigrants from the Principality of Hessen-Hanau, Germany, 1741-1767. McNeal, Arizona: Westland Publications, 1979. |
| Smith-Fuer | Smith, Clifford Neal | Emigrants from the West-German Fuerstenberg Territories (Baden and the Palatinate) to America and Central Europe, 1712, 1737, 1787. McNeal, Arizona: Westland Publications, 1981. |
| Tepper | Tepper, Michael, ed. | New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, 2 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979. |
| YodRh | Yoder, Don | Rhineland Emigrants: Lists of German Settlers in Colonial America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981. |
Hopefully others will also bring to our attention connections they may have made or have identified in family histories, through the IGI, from published articles, or other sources which can also be added in the future. Some of the periodicals that should be searched for additional clues in the future include:
- Palatines to America
- National Genealogical Quarterly
