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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> | ||
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The [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=387875&disp=Familiennamenbuch+der+Schweiz+%3D+Repert%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Swiss Surname Book] which lists all of the villages where a particular surname has citizenship rights back to 1800 is a key source for unusual surnames. The [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=45832&disp=Historisch%2Dbiographisches+Lexikon+der+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 added] [Swiss Biographical Encyvlopedia] often also has leads about places where different surnames were established in Switzerland. The following additional sources are especially for Swiss 18th century emigration:<br> Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies by Albert B. Faust & Gaius M. Brumbaugh, 1925, Vol. 1: Züürich Canton 1734-1744, Vol. 2: Bern Canton 1706-1795 and Basel Canton 1734-1794 [FHL 973 W2fa] <br> Swiss Emigration Book by Cornelia Schrader-Murgenthaler, 1993 [FHL 973 W2smc] <br> A List of Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen (1734-1752) by Ernst Steinemann [FHL 974.8 C4fg Vol. 16]. <br> | |||
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