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This genealogy list covers all German settlers in Virginia, including the Germanna Second Colony. You can subscribe through GERMANS-VA-L-request@rootsweb.com.
Germanna Research Group
1st and 2nd Germanna Colonies Family History. Website with the goal of dissemination of research, genealogy and history of the colonists. Contains the GRG JOURNAL, an on-line publication issued 4 times a year with articles by Germanna researchers and descendants. Free access to public. Premium content and forum accessible to members. Membership is free.
Beyond Germanna and John Blankenbaker
www.germanna.com. John Blankenbaker. Between 1989 and 2005, John Blankenbaker published a newsletter, Beyond Germanna, devoted to both the First and Second Colonies of the Germanna immigrants. Some of the articles are posted on his site and you can order a CD of the entire newsletter from him. John Blankenbaker is considered to be the foremost researcher on Second Colony topics and his corrections to older research make his information indispensable. You can also buy:
“Hebron” Baptismal Register of the German Lutheran Church in Culpeper/Madison Counties, Virginia: 1750 to 1849, By John Blankenbaker, 2003.
The Hebron Communion Lists, 1775 to 1812, by John Blankenbaker, 2001, 2003.
The Culpeper Classes, by John Blankenbaker.
George Durman's Rootsweb Site
1st and 2nd Germanna Colonies Family History Website run by George Durman contains 2500 notes written by John Blankenbaker over nearly a decade, as well as many links to other Second Colony related sites, helpful information, and family trees.
www.germanna.org Website for the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies of Virginia, founded 1956. Offerings for Second Colony are:
— Annual Reunion for descendants of both colonies and Spotswood includes educational conference with some second colony information and unique bus tour of Madison County, Virginia, including land patented by second colony in that county, and the Hebron Lutheran Church. Second Colony related publications include:
- Germanna Record #11: Carpenter and Wayland Descendants, 1968, 2nd printing 1982.
- Germanna Record #12: Aylor, Snyder and Tanner, 1970, 2nd printing 1978.
- Germanna Record #13: Blankenbaker, Weaver,Wilhoite, 1971, 2nd printing 1982.
- Germanna Record #16: The Michael Clore Family, Cathi Clore Frost, 2006.
- Germanna Record #18: The Second Germanna Colony and Other Pioneers, John Blankenbaker, 2008 (provides an overview of all 2nd Colony families.)
- Germanna Record #19: The Yager Family: The First Five Generations, Cathi Clore Frost, 2010
BooneGermanna
www.boonegermanna.com This site was set up by the descendants of Second Colony members who left the Hebron Lutheran Church for “the hinterlands” in 1805 to found their own church, the Hopeful Lutheran Church, in Boone County, Kentucky. This church exists today and many descendants of the Rouse, Tanner, Utz,Clore and many other Germanna families remain in Boone County, today. In 1854, a Hebron Lutheran Church was founded about 10 miles away from Hopeful, and its cemetery is also filled with many Germanna names.
Meetings, newsletter, maintains historic Kemper home, slave quarters, old Arcade. Map of old Madison homes. Address: Madison County Historical Society, P.O. Box 67, Madison, VA 22727. Phone: (540) 948-5488.
Other books and publications of interest to Second Colony researchers:
History of the Hebron Lutheran Church, 1717-1990, by Rev. William Peter Huddle, 1908. Reprinted, with epilogue by Margaret Grim Davis, 1990.
Land Grants of Madison County,Virginia, by Dewey B. Lillard, 2000, available from Madison County, VA, Historical Society or Dewey B. Lillard, RR1 Box 82A, Madison, VA 22727.
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