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Beyond Germanna

Beyond Germanna is a newsletter-journal which was published by John Blankenbaker for fifteen years from 1989 until the November 2003 issue when publication was terminated. The primary topic of this work is the Germanna colonists including their origins and life in Germany, journeys to the New World, and their settlements, histories, genealogies, associated families, and dispersions to other areas. All of the fifteen volumes are still available in print format by the year or by the issue.

The print version of Beyond Germanna was published six times a year with at least ten pages per issue.

Germanna was the site of the first permanent German settlement in Virginia. Though the Germans did not remain long at Germanna, the name Germanna has become a symbol of all of the Germans who lived on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia (as opposed to those who lived in the Shenandoah Valley on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains). More than one hundred families meet this criteria.