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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Donaldson, Randall P. |
| Title, Analytic | Genealogy versus History: Generating Synergy |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2010 |
| Volume ID | 45 |
| Location in Work | 177-192 |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | The present discussion seeks a middle ground between a narrow family chronicle and a broader study of German-speaking immigrants to North America. The focus here is on three different individuals, unrelated to one another, who are connected only by the fact that they left a German-speaking area of Europe and emigrated to a relatively similar geographical area (Maryland). They enter the United States or the American colonies, as the case may be, in three different centuries and follow very different paths as they settle in. . . . The goal is to allow the lives of three individuals to illuminate the narrow historical and geographical circumstances of the period in which they lived and to let those circumstances in turn deepen our understanding of their lives. The immigrants are: Moritz Woerschler (1719-ca. 1795), Vincent Potthast (1866-1911), and Kurt Moeller (1896-1980). |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical notes. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Genealogy/ German Americans/ United States -- History/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans -- Maryland |