Just in case someone doesn’t know it, GoogleBooks has copied many old an obscure texts and made them available online. I have found things that I would never have found otherwise.
Local histories are showing up on the internet. Not a big thing but I've found folks posting things written in old Bibles and journals that are definitely history changers.
Today I finally figured out that the first Lutheran Church in Schoharie New York was NOT a German church. It was an ELC, Evangelical Lutheran church, which has more Scandinavian roots than German ~ and had Swedish preachers (Hooparties). About 1739 it even saw an overwhelming influx of Swedes (probably from York PA). By 1785 the minister was marrying a young woman from Sweden with advanced university studies!
Been looking real carefully at the existing records of that area and can find only a couple of Dutch surnames.
At one time this was considered a hard core Dutch locale.