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| Name |
LIND, Beginning of Branch |
| Birth |
Abt 1700 |
Deutschland (Palatinate ?)  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried at |
Unknown [2] |
| Children |
at least three [2] |
| Coded sources |
25 [2] |
| Last entry date |
18 Mar1998 by GBL [2] |
| Married |
at least once [2] |
| Point of Contac |
George B. Lint [2] |
| Social Security |
before social security [2] |
| Tombstone |
Unknown [2] |
| Occupation |
Unknown [2] |
| Religion |
Probably Reformed Lutheran [2] |
| _UID |
12AF28BC33BD9A48AF9AC107CDB845F2445B |
| Person ID |
I63030 |
Garys-Tree |
| Last Modified |
28 Jan 2009 |
| Children |
| | 1. LIND, Conrath Thomas, b. Abt 1730, Deutschland (Palatinate ?) d. Nov 1803, Paint Creek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (Age 73 years) |
| | 2. LINT, Johann Michael, b. Abt 1731, Deutschland (Palatinate) d. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA |
| | 3. LINT, Georg Philips, b. Abt 1732 |
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| Family ID |
F22329 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
| Family 2 |
UNKNOWN, wife's name is, b. Abt 1700, Deutschland (Palatinate ?) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1730 |
Deutschland (Palatinate ?) [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. LIND, Conrath Thomas, b. Abt 1730, Deutschland (Palatinate ?) d. Nov 1803, Paint Creek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (Age 73 years) |
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| Family ID |
F22370 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
- [Lint.3.FTW]
1. This individual existed but to date absolutely nothing is known abo ut him except that following the customs of the time his name must have be en Lind. It may possibly have been Linde or Lindt but I have found aft er several years of research in Germany that this is highly unlikely. Bec ause of the social, political, religious, and military turmoil at the tim e, this individual could have been born almost anywhere in what we know to day as Germany. Considering the time period in which his sons came to Ame rica though, there is a high probability they were born in the Palatina te of Germany. My research of the past couple of years has isolated abo ut four groups of Linds in Germany.
1a. The largest group I've found thus far is concentrated in the Rheinlan d-Palatinate on the west side of
the Rhine river in the wine region between Bad Bergzabern and Mainz. O ne family from Graben which is in this area [but on the east side of the R hine between Karlsruhe and Speyer] has been positively
connected with one of our Lind-Lint branches in America. The rest of th is large grouping has numerous
immigrations to America, but mainly after the 1850s when the Lind name ten ded to remain as Lind and not become anglicized to our Lint name. I am pe rsonally aquainted with several of these folks but am not actively pursui ng their genealogy because they have nothing to do with our Lint ancestr y. I am however very actively pursuing the possibility of a connection bet ween our three Linds who arrived in America in 1752 off the Snow Ketty a nd Linds from this Palatinate area. Logic based on the history of the per iod, name patterns, family groups, etc., points very strongly to this ar ea which I have traced Lind families back to the mid 1500's.
1b. Another large group of Linds exists in the Aachen area in the northwe stern area of Germany on the
border with Holland. Again this group goes back to the mid to late 1500 's and may have spilled over into Holland forming the van der Linds who la ter came to America and settled in New York eventually
morphing their name to van der Lent... Lent... and eventually Lint which s pread north into New England, Maine, and on into Canada [loyalists] aft er the Revolutionary War. It is very easy to mix up the Lint ancest ry of these folks with the relatively few Lints who went east out of Yo rk and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania. Of course the opposite is tru e, I have no doubt that a couple of these New York type Lints have come we st instead of northeast and been assimilated into our own clan's histor y. I have dedicated little time to the study of this group on either si de of the Atlantic but hope to do so sometime in the future.
1c. The third grouping is over in the southern region of Germany in the a rea surrounding Wuerttemberg where we have made positive connections wi th Lind-Lint families who entered into Pennsylvania. Our
cousin David Diehl in Jacobus, Pennsylvania is responsible for finding th is tie and is doing all of the
primary research on this area. We have records of Linds back to the ear ly 1500's in this grouping.
1d. The fourth and last grouping is really a sub-group of the Palatina te Lind's plus all the cats and dogs so to speak. The Hunsruck Linds [whi ch is where I live half the year from May thru Oct] fascinate me becau se I am rapidly becoming the most familiar with them. The closest one liv es 2.5 miles from my home there today and I've had the opportunity to me et and interview several Lind descendants. These Linds also go back to t he early 1500's. The cats and dogs are a scattering of Linds, Lindt's, a nd Lint's from all over Germany but in almost every case I've found th em to originate from one of the three basic
Lind groups. The Linds I've found in France [along the Rhine], in Russ ia and Romania are all from the
German Linds. Even the Lint I found in Ireland came from Germany.
1e. The Linds from Sweden seem to be exactly that... from Sweden. Even J enny Lind's branch has been relatively easily traced back four generatio ns in Sweden. Without, I might add, any connection whatsoever to our Penn sylvania Lind's that can be found or proven to any degree. We're still tr ying though.
1f. Of the 50-60 Linds that have immigrated to America since about 1740 t he mix is about 50/50 between the German and Swedish Linds. The biggest d istinction between the two before about 1820 is that [because of linguisti cs] the Swedes remained with the name LIND and the Germans almost without
exception changed within two generations to the name LINT. Immigrants aft er about 1850, were far less apt to have their name changed from Lind to L int if they were of German origin. By this time though, the five basic br anches of Lints were fully established [100 years] and the new immigran ts impact upon the history and genealogy of the Lint families was minima l.
2. As with everything concerning Genealogy this is a neverending searc h. I will add to these notes as I find new material.
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