Next meeting of the
Southwest Florida Germanic Genealogy Society
is Saturday, May 1, 2010
in Room A-B at the Mid-County Regional Library
2050 Forrest Nelson Blvd, Port Charlotte.


Our program will include watching Program 3:  "Little Germanies", from the four-part television series, "Germans in America". 

Over 60 million Americans have their origins in German-speaking countries.  The Germans in America series tells the story of our German ancestors immigrating to the United States.  This program follows two families who represent both ends of the economic spectrum, the Steinweg family, who founded Steinway & Sons, and the Gumpertz family, who struggled to find a way out of the slums of New York's Little Germany.


                                       
Press Photos from Germans in America (TV and DVD Series)
 

Facts
Prussia was between France and the Netherlands on the west and Poland and Hungary on the east.

Prussia at its largest was smaller than California.

Although considered a part of Germany Alsace was granted to France in 1648. Lorraine became part of France in 1766.

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