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Significant numbers of German emigrants can be found on every continent and in many countries around the world. Millions of people left Germany in several waves of migration.
Significant numbers of German emigrants can be found on every continent and in many countries around the world. Millions of people left Germany in several waves of migration.


Records that document emigration from Germany include passenger lists, passports, permissions to emigrate, German and French emigration indexes, published emigration lists, police registration records, and other departure documents, as well as sources in the emigrant's new countries.  
Records that document emigration from Germany include passenger lists, passports, permissions to emigrate, German and French emigration indexes, published emigration lists, police registration records, and other departure documents, as well as sources in the emigrant's new countries. Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in Germany. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants' names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birth places. Sometimes they also show family groups.  
 
Links to various lists of German emigrants, passenger lists, etc. are found at:
 
*[http://www.routes.de/research.html Find Your Roots in Germany]
*[http://www.stevemorse.org/ One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse]
*[http://www.germanroots.com/emigration.html Emigration from Germany, including the historical background of German emigration]


===Passenger Departure Lists===  
===Passenger Departure Lists===  
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