|
THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
The present volume of The Report: Journal of German-American History
represents a continued commitment of the Society for the History of the Ger-
mans in Maryland to provide tools for family research to its members and a
nation-wide readership. This charge began with The Report 38 and is com-
plemented now by the contents of the present volume, The Report 39. The
Society is delighted by the overwhelming response of the public to The Report
38, with requests coming from throughout the United States and abroad. A
highlight of that volume are the inventories of the extant German church rec-
ords in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Copies of The Report 38 are
still available as well as selected past issues of The Reports. Inquiries should be
addressed to the Secretary. It should also be noted that the Society possesses
a limited number of first edition copies of a seminal work of German-American
studies—The Maryland Germans: A History by Dieter Cunz. Original copies
are for sale to libraries, institutions, and interested individual scholars and re-
searchers. The Maryland Germans is the first full history of the German immi-
gration to a state of the Middle Atlantic region and demonstrates well the
typical American juxtaposition of Anglo-Saxon and Continental European
immigrants.
Through its Annual Dinner Meetings, the Society continues to present its
members speakers who treat topics highlighting the full variety of the history of
Germans in America. Topics during the last few years include German folkart
among the Pennsylvania Dutch, Germans in Georgia, and the editorial notes
concerning the papers of Steuben.
Through scholarship, discussion, and good will, the Society for the History
of the Germans in Maryland maintains a critical forum for the study of the
German presence in American culture. And while it does not provide services
for individual generalogical research, its purpose serves the preservation of sub-
stantive interest in German-American studies.
W. G. D.
[84]
|