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Emslanders
to the
American Mid-West
This webpage is
devoted to the identification of 19th century German emigrants who came to America from
that part of Hannover known today as Emsland, Niedersachsen, and settled in the
mid-western United States.
www.emslanders.com |
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| Emsland, as used on this webpage, refers to the present-day district of
Germany which bears that name. Emsland is a Landkreis (subdistrict) of the Regierungsbezirk (larger
district) of Weser-Ems located in the Land (state) of Niedersachsen. The village
of Lohne, which was formerly in the parish of Schepsdorf, is today part of Wietmarschen in
the district of Bentheim. Nevertheless, it is included here because it was traditionally a
part of the area now known as Emsland. There were other villages which were always outside
of Emsland but belonged to parishes in Emsland - Drievorden and Engden in Bentheim which
belonged to Emsbueren parish and Adorf and Neuringe in Bentheim and Nieuw Schoonebeek in
Holland which belonged to Twist parish. Emigrants from those non-Emsland villages will
sometimes be included here. Also treated as Emslanders are emigrants from Slagharen,
Holland whose parents had been born in Emsland but were working in Slagharen before they
emigrated to America. more about Emsland, including maps
and a list of Catholic parishes |
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| The emigrant entries on this website are for Emslanders who settled
anywhere in the American Mid-West. States included are (east to west) Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas. Southern
Illinois and eastern Missouri are somewhat over-represented due to easy access to
records for those areas. No real effort is being made, at least not at this time, to
include on this website Emslanders who settled in the general vicinity of Chicago. Reasons
for this regrettable omission include both the size of the task and the difficulties
involved in doing research from a distance on inhabitants of a major city.
more about locations in the Mid-West with a large number of
Emslanders |
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| Various local and German resources are being used to find or verify the
origins of emigrants from Emsland and to establish that they, or close relatives, had at
some time lived in Missouri or Illinois. more about sources
used for research |
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| This website is the by-product of a personal research project which
has as its focus the understanding of settlement patterns among Emslanders who came to
Missouri and Illinois. The goal is to determine what sort of relationship existed among
the persons or families who settled near each other when they first arrived here and also
among those who subsequently moved on together to some new location. A preliminary step
toward this goal is the identification of the village of origin of as many emigrants from
Emsland as possible who settled in, or spent some time in, Missouri or Illinois. Because
the information being gathered on these emigrants would certainly be of interest to some
of their descendents it is being made available on this website. New material will be
added periodically. Comments concerning this website can be sent to Barbara Salibi, the person responsible for creating and
maintaining the site. This is not, however, a single-person project. Much valuable
information has been contributed by others.
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