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==How to Find the Records== | |||
=Online Sources=== | |||
*'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971] Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries. | |||
*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". | |||
In order to research your ancestor in German records, you need to know the exact town of origin. Most of the time this information is found in U.S. sources. Thus it is very important to search all available records in the United States first. | In order to research your ancestor in German records, you need to know the exact town of origin. Most of the time this information is found in U.S. sources. Thus it is very important to search all available records in the United States first. | ||
See also,[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|U.S. Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] and [[United States Naturalization Online Genealogy Records|U.S. Naturalization Online Genealogy Records]]. | See also,[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records|U.S. Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] and [[United States Naturalization Online Genealogy Records|U.S. Naturalization Online Genealogy Records]]. | ||