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Immigration from Bentheim County

In the 19th century, more than 20,000 people emigrated from the region Emsland / Grafschaft (county) Bentheim, situated in the Northwestern part of Germany, to the United States of America.
In the beginning, a close contact between the “Old” and the “New World” was established, mostly by writing letters. Over the years and decades, the relationship broke more and more.

The website http://www.german-immigrants.com would like to revive this connection and will provide data and tools to enable interested people on both sides of the “salt-water curtain” doing research and taking up contact again or for the first time.

A free-of-charge database with records on currently more than 15,000 German immigrants is the centerpiece of this website.

Klaus Graf
Klaus Graf
Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (23. Juli 2011). Immigration from Bentheim County. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 9. Juni 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bns0


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