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==== Swiss Emigrants ==== | ==== Swiss Emigrants ==== | ||
The {{FHL|387875|title-id|disp=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 {{FHL|45832|title-id|disp=added}} [Swiss Biographical | The {{FHL|387875|title-id|disp=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 {{FHL|45832|title-id|disp=added}} [Swiss Biographical Encyclopedia] often also has leads about places where different surnames were established in Switzerland. The following additional sources are especially useful for Swiss 18th century emigration research:<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> | ||
==== Other helpful resources ==== | ==== Other helpful resources ==== | ||