Brunswick (Braunschweig) Emigration and Immigration

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For a comprehensive understanding of emigration and immigration records, study the article Germany Emigration and Immigration.

Brunswick (Braunschweig) Websites

• Emigration lists of the former Duchy of Braunschweig,1846-1871, index
• Emigration lists from Berel, Braunschweig

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

• USGenWeb State and country sites often include links to indexed vital records, church information, naturalization records, county histories, and other resources.
• RootsWeb
• German search engine
• Metasearch Engine - Use keywords Auswanderer, Auswanderung, emigration,immigration” to find little-known lists of emigrants
• Palmer list of merchant vessels, descriptions and pictures of European sailing vessels, including many earlier emigrant ships
• Forschungsstelle deutscher Auswanderer in die USA, discussion of problems with Germans to America, links to transcribed passenger lists, offers research services.
• German Emigrant Data Base,covers 1820-1939, main source: New York passenger lists beginning in 1820, supplemented by material found in Germany, ($)
• Ancestors on Board: A Journey of Discovery
• Americana in German Archives

U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes

• Ellis Island Records - New York arrivals 1892-1924, limited search functionality, includes images
• CastleGarden – passenger arrivals in New York 1820-1913, currently not linked to images
• Improved Search Masks for the Ellis Island website and Castle Garden allows searches by various fields, with or without a complete name
• Ancestry.comincludes an ever-increasing number of passenger list indexes and linked imagees, ($).
• Emigrants coming through Canada
• Routes to the Roots has good links to emigrant data bases arranged by geographical area
• Germany Roots, data base of over 230,000 emigrants
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild
• Galveston Immigration Lists
• Bremen passenger lists, 1920-1939
• French Lines
• Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung Emigrants from noble families

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