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Emigrants from Westphalia, Prussia - Brief History of Emigration from a rural region ("Sauerland", Kreis Meschede and Kreis Olpe) in Germany to the USA, mainly in the 19th century. Surname list of emigrants. General hints to find the place of origin of your German ancestors. Genealogy.
Routes to the Roots in Germany - Routes to the Roots (RsRs) carries out research on German emigration to America and organizes heritage tours and fieldtrips to Germany and to the US.
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But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Immigration Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Immigration Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Immigration The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Immigration Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. 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