Immigration Overview

Exhibits and Materials

How German is American?
http://mki.wisc.edu/hgia/
In Booklet Form (Adobe PDF)
http://mki.wisc.edu/hgia/hgia_booklet.pdf
In Poster Form (HTML)
http://mki.wisc.edu/HGIA/Poster.htm

Immigration Teaching resources

Teaching Unit: America, Here We Come
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/unit16.html
Teaching Unit: Emigration and Immigration http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/unit19/unit19.html

Census Data

Distribution of European-born German-speakers 1898
http://mki.wisc.edu/HGIA/About/1.htm
The 1990 Census: German-Americans
http://www-lib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/nameword/census.html
Additional 1990 Census Information
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/1990.html
2000 Census County map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans#_note-17
2000 Census data changes since 1990
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/2000.html

Additional Resources

Patriotic Americans of German heritage
http://www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=514
German heritage on the website of the German Embassy:
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/ger_americans/ger_americans.htmll
The German immigration on the Goethe Website:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/lrn/en1544734.htm
German-Americana for teachers
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/teaching.html
Biographies of German-Americans
http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/1alphabetical.html
Identifying German words in English
http://www-lib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/nameword/nameword.html
Sources on feudalism in Medieval England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
Emigration/Immigration Teaching Unit
http://www-lib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/unit19/unit19.html
Autobiography of Adolf Douai, 1819-1888, Immigrant to Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Adolph_Douai

Immigrant letters

A Family History
http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/4074/index.html
Geerdts Family Letters
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4074/liebesweibchen.html
Letters from an Immigrant
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4074/starkege.htm

Teaching Units about German Names - do all three

Identifying German Names - Apendix A
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/nameword/apend-a.html
Samples - Apendix B
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/nameword/apend-b.html
Identifying German Names - Apendix C
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/kade/nameword/apend-c.html