Alsace

Technically part of France, Alsace historically spent long periods under German rule and is sometimes seen as a culturally German. Immigrants from Alsace identified either French or German.

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Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America by Annette K. Burgert
Call Number: GR110.P4 A372 vol. 26
ISBN: 1882442008
Published/Created: 1992
Alphabetical list of emigrants from the Northern Alsace, now part of France; contains indexes of ships and surnames.
Lettres d'Amérique : des émigrants d'Alsace et de Lorraine écrivent au pays, 1802-189 by Camille Maire
Call Number: E184.F8 M35 1992 OVERFLOWA5S
ISBN: 2876921049
Published/Created: 1992
Includes bibliographic references, and letters written from Alsace and Lorraine emigrants living in America to their mother country.
The Alsace Emigration Book by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler
Call Number: CS68 .S34 1989
ISBN: 1558560351
Published/Created: 1990-06-01
Lists of towns and villages in Alsace, as well as lists of emigrants. 2 volumes.
Baden Emigration Book by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler
Call Number: E184.G3 S376 1992
ISBN: 1558561072
Published/Created: 1992
Also includes several hundred Alsacian emigrants.

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