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Note: Your ancestor may have used another port of departure. According to one source, the safest way to travel to America was via Hull in England, then across land to Liverpool and from there on to the United States. There are no German passenger lists for departures from Liverpool.Should your ancestor have come through the port of Hamburg, the passenger lists will provide a last place of residence which could also be the birth place of your ancestor. | Note: Your ancestor may have used another port of departure. According to one source, the safest way to travel to America was via Hull in England, then across land to Liverpool and from there on to the United States. There are no German passenger lists for departures from Liverpool.Should your ancestor have come through the port of Hamburg, the passenger lists will provide a last place of residence which could also be the birth place of your ancestor. | ||
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Read the article and consider the following questions: Did your ancestor come alone? Did your ancestor naturalize? Did he marry in the US? Did he have children in the US? | Read the article Schleswig-Holstein Emigration and Immigration and consider the following questions: Did your ancestor come alone? Did your ancestor naturalize? Did he marry in the US? Did he have children in the US? | ||
Usually people settled where relatives, friends or acquaintances lived. Often ancestors did not come alone, but with people they knew. Census records should be searched for others with the same family name or same origin. Chances are these people were from the same town your ancestor came from. The intention of naturalization could give a clue of an ancestor’s place of origin. A marriage record could give clues of an ancestor’s place of origin. Children born to a couple often list witnesses and they may be relatives or friends. Tracing them could result in clues of an ancestor’s place of origin. | Usually people settled where relatives, friends or acquaintances lived. Often ancestors did not come alone, but with people they knew. Census records should be searched for others with the same family name or same origin. Chances are these people were from the same town your ancestor came from. The intention of naturalization could give a clue of an ancestor’s place of origin. A marriage record could give clues of an ancestor’s place of origin. Children born to a couple often list witnesses and they may be relatives or friends. Tracing them could result in clues of an ancestor’s place of origin. | ||