Thank you Linda. This could be very helpful to many folks.  There was also a
migration of Germans in the early 1700s to South Carolina. The immigrants
settled in the Sax Gotha area including Orangeburg and Newberry Counties.
My ancester, Peter Herr, came to South Carolina in 1749 aboard the Ship,
Griffin.  The Hair(Herr) family is very prominent in Barnwell County, SC.
For many years it was thought that this Hair family was traditionally
Scotch-Irish.  However, further research proved that the Herr name was given
the more Anglican version, Hair by subsequent generations.  This initially
has lead to much confusion.  Can this be of any assistance to us folks down
South.  Thanks. Gerald F. Greene, [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Leo & Linda Schreiber 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 2:06 PM
Subject: New Maillist


Hello.
>
>I am Linda Schreiber, and I want to announce the birth of a new
>maillist called Common-Ground.  The list will focus on the earliest
>settlements and early joint migration patterns of the Scotch-Irish and
>the Palatine German/Swiss immigrants.
>
>We hope this new list will be useful, in coordination with the
>existing Pfalz-L and Scotch-Irish-L lists, in helping us pull together
>the queries/contacts and the historical/cultural information for our
>bi-cultural ancestors, who became so intertwined early in their
>immigrant histories.
>
>As they got off the boats, mostly at the Delaware River ports, a great
>many Palatine Germans and Scotch-Irish settled at first in a cluster
>of counties in SE Pennsylvania, NE Maryland, and West Jersey.
>Although of very different cultures, many began intermarrying within a
>fairly short time -- some lines within a decade, some lines after a
>generation or so.
>
From this early settlement area, blended clusters of people migrated
>outwards mostly along two geographically divergent paths: east into
>western PA>OH>IN>IL>KS etc, or southwards into VA>NC/SC>KY>MO>OK etc.
>As our ancestor-searches move back in time, and backwards along these
>divergent migration paths, we are coming back to that fork in the
>road.
>
>As we get closer to that fork in the road, we all need to be talking
>to each other!  My brick wall in NC may be the younger brother, or
>uncle, or first cousin of your brick wall in eastern OH.  I may have
>the father of your Palatine brick wall because his sister married my
>Scotch-Irish ancestor, and I've got them tracked.  In addition, you
>may have acquired knowledge of Dunker or Lutheran religion, or how to
>begin tracking German/Swiss emigrants abroad, while I may have
>investigated Presbyterians or Methodists, and have experience with
>genealogy in Northern Ireland.  Sharing is much easier than having to
>reinvent wheels.
>
>To subscribe to the new list, go to
>http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Common-Ground.  This site will walk
>you through a quick and easy subscription process.  If you have any
>problems accessing the list, let me know at [email protected],
>and I will help out.
>
>Then please introduce yourself, and the ancestors you are hunting, to
>the listers there.  Let's see if we all can't make some serious
>genealogical progress .
>
>
>Linda Schreiber
>
>
>
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