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<br>Approximately half of all people in Baden left | <br>Approximately half of all people in Baden left without permission granted by administrators. Most emigrants left via the French port Le Havre where pass controls and regulations were not as stringent as at the German and Dutch ports. Many emigration documents before 1850 have been destroyed. Most emigration materials in the general archive are from 1850-1880 with more emigrants from the north than the south of Baden. However, the records of the ''Bezirksämter'' (administrations, abbreviated BA) of southern Baden (Brühl to the Bodensee) have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. | ||
Emigration records contain personal reasons for emigration or economic and social circumstances. In the Freiburg Archive are housed the so called ''Standesbücher'' which were created between 1810 and 1870 by priests. They also had to supply duplicates of these records and give them to the lower courts. If the birth information of the ancestor is known, he could be traced in these books as well as his parents, brothers and sisters and his grandparents. | Emigration records contain personal reasons for emigration or economic and social circumstances. In the Freiburg Archive are housed the so called ''Standesbücher'' which were created between 1810 and 1870 by priests. They also had to supply duplicates of these records and give them to the lower courts. If the birth information of the ancestor is known, he could be traced in these books as well as his parents, brothers and sisters and his grandparents. | ||