Who are the Pennsylvania Dutch and how can you trace your own ancestry back through their earliest immigrants in the late 17th - early 18th centuries? Learn about the origins\, conventions\, and new world emigration patterns of this community\; discover useful rec ord types and where to find them\; and see how to piece all of this togeth er to tell \; your family&rsquo\;s story.
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Jeanie Glaser
is a professional genealogist and place historian. She is a native of the
Pennsylvania Dutch heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and an 11th gene
ration American descendant of many Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants. Jeanie s
pecializes in multiracial genealogy rooted in the early mid-Atlantic and s
outheastern US\, as well as immigrants to the US from southern Italy. She
is a longtime board member of the Pennsylvania Hallowed Grounds Project\,
a preservation nonprofit for historic African American cemeteries. Her fav
orite part of her job is incorporating landscapes and the built environmen
t into genealogical narratives. \;