INTRODUCTION

• This account of the 1738, Year of the Destroying Angels, graphically illustrates the hardships encountered by these sturdy Palatines when trying to cross the ocean to America in a quest for a new life.
• 18th Century PA German Naming Customs is an excellent copyright discussion on-line by Charles Kerchner and can be found at, kerchner.com/germname.htm. He outlines the early Germanic customs for naming children according to the order they were born and other conventions for modifying proper names. Also the spelling tends to get Anglasized after the immigrants arrived in the English colonies. Charles could be related as one of Peter Sr. daughters married a Michael Kirtchner in Frederick MD.
• Immigration patterns of early Germans to Maryland after entry into Philadelphia
• Reference Sources such as books, web sites, private notes, etc. that we used to identify our ancestors and their life styles.
• Links to a few other excellent genealogical web pages including one by a descendant of Michael-Cyndi's List.

This web site is dedicated to my wife Carol, whom I named "Super Sleuth". Without her endless hours of searching through archives such as the blurry microfilm records of 18th century quill pen writing, that were made by the LDS church, we could not have developed such a rich historical account of our 18th century ancestors or definitive documentation of our genealogical lines. It was her research that confirmed the probable connection of our ancestral lines to Solingen Germany.

I would also like to dedicate the Clemens pages to cousin Donald (Max) Engle deceased, who spent many years tracking down descendants from Clemens, which he subsequently recorded in a hand drawn family tree with more than 2000 names! Also, he corresponded with Roy Engle for many years and cousin Roy was able to provide to this web page the extensive GEDCOM files for the families of Michael Ingle and Peter Jr Engle based on his own research.

And finally a big round of applause for cousin Adell who went to Germany and tracked down cousin Henri with his extensive genealogy of the Engels in Germany and France. Ten years ago, Adell had noted the names of a Clemens and Peter Engels in the Solingen church records while she was living in Germany but we could never positively identify them as our ancestors until she located Henri Engels of France on her visit back to Germany in the year 2000.

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