Pictures of Pennsylvania Germans(or Pennsylvania Dutch)

[Stefan]

From Wikipedia:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_dutch)
The Pennsylvania Dutch are the descendants of Germanic peoples who emigrated to the U.S. (primarily to Pennsylvania), from Germany, Switzerland and The Low Countries prior to 1800. The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples, which explains the corruption of the German word Deutsch to Dutch; therefore, the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch are really Pennsylvania Germans. The German, Deutsch, the archaic Dutch, Deitsch, and the modern Dutch, Duits, each mean 'German' yet are all cognates of the English, 'Dutch'. Hostetler (1993) gives the origin of 'Dutch' as a "folk-rendering" of 'Deitsch'.[2]
Pennsylvania Dutch are a people of various religious affiliations, most of them Lutheran or Reformed, but many Anabaptists, non-Christian, and non-religious as well. They live primarily in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the area stretching in an arc from Bethlehem and Allentown through Reading, Lebanon, and Lancaster to York and Chambersburg. They can also be found down throughout the Shenandoah Valley (the modern Interstate 81 corridor) in the adjacent states of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, and in the large Amish and Mennonite communities in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in Ohio north and south of Youngstown and in Indiana around Elkhart. Their cultural traditions date back to the German immigrations to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Only then did German immigration from various parts the southern Rhineland, Palatinate, the southern part of Hesse, Baden, Alsace Switzerland, and Tyrol Austria gain momentum, and soon dominate the area. But the Pennsylvania Dutch language is ultimately a derivative of Palatinate German.

Some pictures I've found on the internet, as well as sources.

http://home.att.net/~long.hair/gallery/index.htm

http://home.att.net/~long.hair/gallery/dunkel1922.jpg


http://home.att.net/~long.hair/gallery/maxatawny1916.jpg

http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/pengerm_database.html
http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/Weaver1.html

http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/morris_sr_sepia.gif

http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/morris_annie.jpg

http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/margaret_downey.gif

http://webs.lanset.com/azazella/george_mary.gif

Amish

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1047001361037964364ermISB

http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/4167/1047004778037964364S425x425Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb20.webshots.com/34835/1047001361037964364S500x500Q85.jpg (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1047001361037964364ermISB)

http://inlinethumb26.webshots.com/45721/1047002507037964364S500x500Q85.jpg (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1047002507037964364bNwPFl)

http://inlinethumb07.webshots.com/39046/1047004021037964364S500x500Q85.jpg (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1047004021037964364ZlyFcr)


Some of my personal family of whom are overall probably 75%+ Pa German in ancestry, my Mother and her siblings are around 90% PA German in ancestry.

http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=63&d=1263947644

http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=64&d=1263947657

http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=65&d=1263947668

http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=66&d=1263947687


I've noticed that Alpinoid and Faelid types are the massive majority of the population with lower levels of Nordid(Mostly Tronder or Keltic) and Mediterranid(Mostly Pontid) populations.

I'm sure you people at the Apricity have tons of photos to contribute as well. :thumbs up