This site is dedicated to the descendants of Johannes Pulisfelt and Margaretha  Sturr.  They first show up in the USA as emigrants fleeing the German states after  the particularly brutal winter of 1709.  Mass exodus from the area resulted from crop  failures, loss of work, and general economic distress.  Although I haven't traced  them in Europe as of yet, the groups that came to the US were typically refugees in  the Netherlands.  The government of England, trying to fill in the colonies with  immigrants, brought them here, but a change in the government administration  basically abandoned them, reneging on promises made.  It couldn't have been a good  time, and many of the immigrants died.  I believe this couple married here, so we are  looking for the immigration of both families.

There are many other families who should be connected here, but because records no  longer, or never did, exist, the paper trail is hard to prove.  You will notice that  many of there families will be included here with no connections, in the hopes that  someone will one day make the connection.

Anyone up for DNA?  This has been shown, at times, to prove connections otherwise  unprovable.  We would encourage you to submit the results of both Y-DNA and mtDNA  testing that might shed light on these problems. The Y-DNA should come from males who  are in direct male-only descent from a target male ancestor, and the mtDNA can come  from females, or males, who are in direct female-only descent from a target female  ancestress.  
 Even if your line is already proven, the submission will be gratefully appreciated by  those who are trying to see if this is their family as well, but have no records. I  have seen it work perfectly in another line I am tracing, even though the two distant  cousins tested were separated from the common ancestor by a span of 270 years, but  the Y-DNA was identical.