emigration

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Publication: Catholic Ancestor

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Peter J. Towey, Vice-President
20 Skylark Rise
Plymouth, Devon
ENGLAND, United Kingdom, PL6 7SN
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Secretary: 
Mrs Gwen Davis, BA (Hons),
5 Oldbury Grove, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire,
ENGLAND, United Kingdom, HP9 2AJ

By Chairman Peter Towey

The Anglo-German Family History Society has more than 750 members, principally from England but also from USA, Australia, New Zealand and - of course - Germany.

People often wonder why so many English people have German roots. There are several reasons;
i) the proximity of the two countries, on either side on the North Sea, and the ease of travel, in times past, from one to the other by sea; 

Copyright 1996 Ray Marshall, all rights reserved

Total Names Extracted:

Copyright 1996 Ray Marshall, all rights reserved (Note by Ray Marshall: The spelling of the names is that of the census enumerator, thus many names are known to be misspelled. Additionally, the penmanship or microfilm copy was not always clear enough to be certain as to the actual name intended.

For further information, contact:
Ray Marshall
4052 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406

(c) copyright 1996 Ray Marshall, all rights reserved 
(Note by Ray Marshall: The spelling of the names is that of the census enumerator, thus many names are known to be misspelled. Additionally, the penmanship or microfilm copy was not always clear enough to be certain as to the actual name intended.

For further information, contact:
Ray Marshall
4052 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406

copyright 1996, Ray Marshall, all rights reserved

Background: Ray Marshall of Minneapolis has about 2,500 names of Polish immigrants to St. Louis County, Minnesota (which includes the city of Duluth) for the period 1870-1895. He attended the 1996 FEEFHS Convention in Minneapolis and offered them to us for posting as a web-base on the FEEFHS Web Site.

By Ray Marshall

(c) Copyright 1996 Ray Marshall, all rights reserved

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By Ray Marshall

(c) copyright 1996 Ray Marshall, all rights reserved

Often when we are searching for our grandparents and further back, we find that there has not been a lot of information reported about Polish immigration to Minnesota, especially in the last century. The chapter about the Poles in the book, "They Chose Minnesota", is an excellent starting point in the English language for getting an overview of the subject.