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== Records Destroyed == | == Records Destroyed == | ||
We may mourn the accidental and deliberate destruction of records during the middle period, but do not let this deter your family history efforts. Just move on to alternate sources. | |||
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| "As far as can be ascertained by German archivists, lists of emigrants sailing from Bremen were kept beginning in 1832. These lists were used to compile statistical reports for the govenment and port authorities. Owing to a lack of space, the lists from 1832 to 1872 were destroyed in 1874. Thereafter the list were shredded every two years. From 1907 the original lists were again kep on a permanent basis, but with the destruction of the Statistical Land Office on October 6, 1944, all remaining lists perished. Transcripts of some twentieth century lists (1907, 1908, 1913, 1914) were recently discovered at the German State Archives in Koblenz--the product of a college study--but no nineteenth century transcripts have as yet been uncovered." Quoted from ''German Immigrants:Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867'', by Gary J. Zimmerman, Marion Wolfert, p. vii. | |||
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