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Horlacher, Gary T. and Wilford W. Whitaker, ''Broad Bay Pioneers: 18th Century German-Speaking Settlers of Present-Day Waldoboro, Maine''. Rockport, Maine : Picton Press,1998, [[/en/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0897252101|ISBN 0897252101]]. (FHL US/Can 974.157/W1 F2w) | Horlacher, Gary T. and Wilford W. Whitaker, ''Broad Bay Pioneers: 18th Century German-Speaking Settlers of Present-Day Waldoboro, Maine''. Rockport, Maine : Picton Press,1998, [[/en/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0897252101|ISBN 0897252101]]. (FHL US/Can 974.157/W1 F2w) | ||
==== Germans in Nova Scotia ==== | ==== Germans in Nova Scotia ==== | ||
If you are doing Nova Scotia research, a good resource are Winthrop Bell's study and notes which are available at the Family History Library: | If you are doing Nova Scotia research, a good resource are Winthrop Bell's study and notes which are available at the Family History Library: | ||
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Part 1. Miscellaneous cards, A-Z FHL US/CAN Film <br>2113582 Item 1<br>Part 2. Lunenburg casuals (not permanent settlers), A-Z FHL US/CAN Film <br>2113582 Item 2 | Part 1. Miscellaneous cards, A-Z FHL US/CAN Film <br>2113582 Item 1<br>Part 2. Lunenburg casuals (not permanent settlers), A-Z FHL US/CAN Film <br>2113582 Item 2 | ||
Bell, Winthrop Pickard, The "foreign Protestants" and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century. [Toronto, Ontario] : University of Toronto Press,1961. FHL US/Can 971.63 F2b .<br>Huber, Paul and Eva, ed., ''European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg, '' Halifax, N.S., Messenger Publications, 2003. For more information, including a list of settlers' names, see [http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html] | Bell, Winthrop Pickard, The "foreign Protestants" and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century. [Toronto, Ontario] : University of Toronto Press,1961. FHL US/Can 971.63 F2b .<br>Huber, Paul and Eva, ed., ''European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg, '' Halifax, N.S., Messenger Publications, 2003. For more information, including a list of settlers' names, see [http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html] | ||
| ==== Research different colonies ==== | ||
Even if you are not researching a family from New York, New England, or Nova Scotia, you perhaps should check out these sources as well. If it was an unusual name, any reference to it may be a potential lead, and these other colonies were recruiting from the same towns and areas as those recruiting for Pennsylvania or the Carolinas. In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. For example, the Heyler family came to Boston (Waldoboro, Maine) in 1742, but also had close relatives from the same village in Germany that settled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.<br> | Even if you are not researching a family from New York, New England, or Nova Scotia, you perhaps should check out these sources as well. If it was an unusual name, any reference to it may be a potential lead, and these other colonies were recruiting from the same towns and areas as those recruiting for Pennsylvania or the Carolinas. In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. For example, the Heyler family came to Boston (Waldoboro, Maine) in 1742, but also had close relatives from the same village in Germany that settled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.<br> | ||