Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants

Germany Germany Emigration and Immigration Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants

Many lists of German emigrants listing towns of origin are found on the internet. Following is a list of useful websites. Additional material can be found by entering the German region plus the terms “emigrants, emigration” or their German equivalents: “Auswanderer, Auswanderung” in a search engine.

General Information[edit | edit source]

Germans_to_America
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[edit | edit source]

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

Regional Lists and Indexes of Emigrants[edit | edit source]

Baden	Glatzle collection emigrants from Baden and Wuerttemberg
Bayern/Bavaria	Emigrants from Oberbayern,($)
Braunschweig/Brunswick	Every-name index to Auswandererlisten des ehemaligen Herzogtums Braunschweig 1846-1871, by Fritz Gruhne
Hannover/Hanover	Emigrants from Northern Friesland Former county of Wildeshausen emigrants 15,000 emigrants from the Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim regions
Hessen/Hesse	Auswanderung aus dem Rheingau PDF
Lippe-Detmold	Emigrants from Lippe-Detmold
Mecklenburg-Schwerin	Griese Gegend emigrants
Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Emecklenburg Auswanderer
Oldenburg	Emigration from Niedersachsen, includes material for Oldenburg Oldenburg list of parishes, emigrant database
Rheinland/Rhineland	Auswanderer nach Amerika aus dem Kreise Ahrweiler
Sachsen/Saxony	http://www.beepworld.de/members81/saxonforefathers/index.htm Saxon Forefathers emigrant list], further information by request. Marxkors_index.pdf Marxkors Index of emigrants, Westphalia and Lower Saxony Emigration from Niedersachsen, includes material for Oldenburg
Schaumburg-Lippe	Schaumburger Auswanderer
Schleswig-Holstein	Rootdigger Schleswig-Holstein emigrants Free index, ($) for place of origin.
Thüringen/Thuringia	Emigrants from Sachsen-Coburg, Sachsen-Kronach, and Sachsen-Meiningen emigrants Rudolstadt region of Thueringen emigrants
Westfalen/Westphalia	Nordrhein-Westfalen emigrants Kreis Herford emigrants Marxkors_index.pdf Marxkors Index of emigrants, Westphalia and Lower Saxony
Wuerttemberg	Wuerttemberg: DELAUS – Delmenhorst 1830-1930, CUXAUS Cuxhaven 1830-1930, CLAUS - Cloppenburg and Vechta areas 1830- abt. 1875, – Bad Laer near Osnabrueck

Lists of emigrants from individual towns[edit | edit source]

Germans to Latin America[edit | edit source]

Lists of Germans immigrating to Brazil, in Portuguese.