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WHO ARE WE? PALATINES!


Just who were the Palatines and why was this organization given the name "Palatines to America" some 30 years ago? Although the time-honored legend is that a few of the founding members were from the Pfalz and decided arbitrarily that all members should have the name "Palatine", this has wandered from historical facts.

Listen to Henry Z Jones, Jr.: "One of the discoveries in my finding over 500 of the 847 New York Palatine families in their German homes is the fact that so many emigrants originated in areas outside the boundaries of what we think of today as the Palatinate. Many New York settlers were found in Neuwied, Isenburg, Westerwald, Darmstadt and Nassau regions as well as the Pfalz - proving again that the term "Palatine" was more of a generic reference (meaning Germans in general) rather than the literal description of their precise, geographic origin. ... The Pastor at Dreieichenhain, midway between Darmstadt and Frankfurt, substantiates the widespread origins of the 1710ers... "In this year many thousand families from Germany, especially from …"


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