Factors which encouraged emigration in the later years were: the general demographic-economic conditions, which resulted from overcrowding; the recruitment by the colonies, and by the shipping companies; and by the letters and visits of people who had gone earlier.
The village of Schwaigern sent large numbers of people to the Americas. The following numbers are known to have left, by the years of the decade:
| Year of Decade |
| Decade | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 1710: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1720: | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1730: | 9 | 26 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 31 | 2 |
| 1740: | 5 | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67 |
| 1750: | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1760: | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Where the first entry is for the year ending in a zero, and the last year in the row is for the year ending in a nine.
These are a count of those who left legally, or who at least left a record at the church. In 1717, one of the families was the Kochs, a part of the Second Germanna Colony. But the Willheits seem to be missing from this count. Several Germanna families immigrated in the early 1730's. And, we see that many people participated in the disastrous year of 1738. The following year was minimum (2), and one wonders if the reports of the disaster of 1738 had time to filter back.
In a recent note (825) a correspondent from Germany, who knows better than I do, tells me that the correct name of the village is Niederndorf (with an "n" in the middle).
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.