Udo Thoerner’s History of Emigration
from Venne, Germany to America
Thörner, Udo. Venne in America: The historical account of the emigration from a Lower Saxony Village in Germany to the Americas in the 19th century. Rosalie Horstman Haines, tr.; 323 pp., 2008. ($32, incl $4 pstg from Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 15865, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215; checks payable to HCCOGS).
Venne in America portrays in unbelievable detail the 19th century mass emigration from a village