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One of author Clifford Neal Smith's primary goals has been to rescue buried data pertaining to 18th- and 19th-century Germany emigration and make it available to researchers. Smith's German-American Genealogical Research Monographs, from which we have reprinted this booklet, was an important instrument for achieving that objective. Smith's list of emigrants from Fuerstenberg is based on a 1937 article by Hermann Baier that compared emigration patterns from that principality over three widely scattered years. Most of the emigrants who did not go to America traveled instead to Hungary, from which their descendants might have later left for the U.S. For each individual, this work gives name, place of origin, year of emigration, destination (if known), source, and such comments as name of spouse, place or date of marriage, whether married before, name of parent(s), and so forth.

See also these other publications by Clifford Neal Smith:
British and German Deserters, Dischargees, and Prisoners of War....
Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg....
Emigrants from Fellbach (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), 1735-1930
Emigrants from Saxony
Emigrants from Hessen-Hanau
From Bremen to America in 1850
Nineteenth-Century Emigration from Kreis Simmern
Nineteenth-Century Emigration of "Old Lutherans"
Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio
Emigrants from France (Haut-Rhin Departement) to America
French and British Land Grants in Post Vincennes (Indiana) District
Spanish and British Land Grants in Mississippi Territory