{"id":41,"date":"2010-10-29T20:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagsiwi.de\/wordpress\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2010-10-30T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:31:46","slug":"coorporating-partners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dagsiwi.de\/en\/coorporating-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Coorporating Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DAG Si-Wi or individual members have contact to almost all US States. Very intensive contact, however, exists with organisations or citizens in Philadelphia and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the home of numerous descendants of the emigrants from the Wittgenstein region.
\nDescendants of emigrants from the Wittgenstein area, e.g. the \u201cThe Church of Brethren\u201d or the \u201cWomelsdorf Family\u201d, are today \u2013 both singly and in whole groups – following in the footsteps of their ancestors.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cThe Memorial Foundation of the Germanna \t\tColonies in Virginia\u201d<\/strong>, an organisation of the descendants of \t\temigrants from the Siegerland region, is the first US member of the DAG \t\tSiWi. There is a steady exchange with the board of the Germanna \t\tFoundation.
\nSteadily increasing numbers of visitors from the Siegerland have already \t\tattended the Annual Reunion of the Germanna Foundation. It is held in \u201cSiegen Forest\u201d <\/strong>near Culpepper \u2013 the location of the settlement of \t\tthe first emigrants from the Siegerland, who came to the New World as \t\tmuch sought-after experts in the areas of mining and steel work. In the \t\tVisitor Center (see left) exhibits from the Siegerland region are on \t\tdisplay.
\nA double-sided leaflet about the emigration of the first people from the Siegerland and about the Germanna Foundation can be sent upon request.<\/p>\n

Visiting delegations from the Germanna Foundation to the Siegerland region, which are also \u2018following in the footsteps of their ancestors\u2019, have been a regular occurrence over the past three years.
\n\"\"One of the DAG Si-Wi\u00b4s partners is the Heimatbund Siegerland-Wittgenstein e. V<\/a>. <\/strong>– an umbrella \t\torganisation of clubs for the preservation of local customs and \t\ttraditions in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. The two organisations \t\tcooperate in a study group which researches into emigration from the \t\tSiegerland and Wittgenstein region to the US in the 18th and 19th \t\tcenturies and which tries to make and maintain contact with the \t\tdescendants of the emigrants.
\nEmigration from the Siegerland and Wittgenstein region to the US is clearly illustrated in a catalogue (128 p.) that was published in 1999 and displayed on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, taking place in Siegen\u00b4s Upper Castle, and which was planned and compiled by the History Department of the University of Siegen. The catalogue is available in our office.
\n <\/a>\"\"The University of Siegen<\/a><\/strong> is a member of the DAG Si-Wi.
\nThe University of Siegen boasts many international partnerships involving research and teaching and has about 80 bilateral agreements with European Universities within the framework of the SOKRATES-program.<\/p>\n