sentences:  Between 1833 and 1854, six individual villagers and 45 families with one to ten children left the village to seek new lives elsewhere.During this time, far more than 200 persons, smallhold farmers, day labourers and craftsmen may have left Herschweiler-Pettersheim, which is reflected in stagnating, and even shrinking, population figures.From 1833 to 1883, the American state of Ohio was a target of local emigrants; a West Palatine colony of sorts was forming there about 1840.