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you have questions about the center that are not answered on this page,
please write to us.
Center for Pennsylvania
German Studies
What the Center does
What the Center can
do for you
What you can do
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Center for Pennsylvania German Studies
The Center for Pennsylvania German Studies was established at Millersville
University in 1986 as a center for the study of the Pennsylvania German
culture in America and as a clearing house for information on the Pennsylvania
Germans.
The focus on the activities and collections of the Center will be
on the various settlements of Americans which have come to be known as
Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch, but chiefly on the non-sectarian
groups, the Lutheran, Reformed (now United Church of Christ) and the Moravian
church groups.
More than seven million people have immigrated to America from the
German-speaking areas of Europe since the first permanent settlement was
begun in 1683 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Thousands of German immigrants
came to Pennsylvania from the Rhineland and neighboring provinces in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Center for Pennsylvania German Studies is located at 406 Spring
Drive, Millersville, PA.
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What the Center does
The Center’s activities include research, documentation and the gathering
and dissemination of information on the Pennsylvania Germans. Scholars
are urged to examine the holdings of the Special Collections in Ganser Library
at Millersville University. Dieter Ulrich works closely with the Special
Collections Library, which houses an important collection of material on
the Pennsylvania Germans, including the Thomas R. Brendle Collection of
Pennsylvania German Folklore on microfilm.
The nucleus of the Center’s collections will be the slides, magnetic
tapes, tapes of dialect radio broadcasts, videotapes, and scrapbooks and
notebooks, which have resulted from the director’s field research during
the past three decades. Especially valuable are the collections of newspaper
columns by dialect writers extending from the beginning of the twentieth
century to the present.
It is anticipated that the Center will prepare and make available
printed and audio-visual materials (videotapes) for use in schools and
other institutions. The Center expects to publish from time to time new
scholarship on the Pennsylvania Germans.
The Center also publishes the "Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German
Studies" which you may receive at no cost. Please send your request to the
address below.
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What the Center can do for you
Scholars planning to work on a project in Pennsylvania German Studies
are encouraged to contact the Center and inform the Center of their research.
High school and college students are encouraged to make use of the
Center’s materials and those in the Special Collections Department in Ganser
Library.
The Center welcomes all kinds of serious inquiries by mail, but genealogical
matters will be passed along to others.
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What you can do for the Center
The Center will gratefully accept gifts of books, old newspapers,
letters, manuscripts, records and recordings, artifacts and other material
pertaining to Pennsylvania German history and folk culture in America.
The Center has established a research support fund. All contributors,
individual as well as corporate, regardless of size, are deductible as
allowed by Federal and State income tax laws. Checks should be made payable
to Millersville University/Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
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Contact information
The Center currently does not have e-mail. Please contact us through
regular mail at:
The Center for Pennsylvania German Studies
C. Richard Beam, Director
406 Spring Drive
Millersville, PA 17551
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