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A resource for Diehl researchers is the George West Diehl collection of papers in the Special Collections Section of Washington and Lee University's Leyburn Library in Lexington, Virginia.
George West Diehl, D.D., L.L.D, 1888-1975, was a Presbyterian Minister who spent his last years in the Lexington area. He was a genealogist all his life and the entire collection of papers includes 39 linear feet of shelf space. Not all of it is genealogy but he researched at least 500 families and much of that material is there.
The Diehl genealogy specifically goes back to "Injun Diehl", a man who was captured by the Delawares and held for a period of time as a child. This man lived in the 1700's in southeastern PA. There is a reference to the collection and the librarian in charge at www.WLU.edu.
I have a copy of a Diehl genealogy dated 1962 compiled by Fred Diehl and I will be glad to consult it for Diehl researchers. It is limited to my own line but goes back over 200 years. Please send any queries to me directly.
In one of the files at W&L, I did see a list of Diehl immigrants and the ships on which they arrived. I'm sorry to say I didn't make a copy of it. Additionally, there was no attribution on the document I saw.
GWD indicated that there were several dozen Diehls who emigrated from Germany over a period of time.
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