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Switzerland

Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

• 1348-1798 Switzerland, Basel City, Local Citizenship Requests, 1348-1798 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only
• 1709-1776 Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners: an Aid to Mennonite Family Research Item 15 on film. Vol. 1 contains chronological lists of Swiss Mennonite refugees from Cantons of Berne, Zürich and Aargau who came to the Netherlands, German Palatine and Holstein regions between 1648 and 1711; passenger lists of Mennonite emigrants to Pennsylvania colony between 1709-1776; and genealogies of Swiss Mennonite families covering the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
• 1734-1752 A list of eighteenth-century emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen to the American colonies, 1734-1752
• 1837-1857 Registres des passeports à l'étranger, 1837-1857 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Switzerland
• Switzerland, Schaffhausen Genealogies and City Directories - FamilySearch Historical Records

Offices and Archives to Contact

If the canton of origin of a pre-1848 emigrant is known, one can contact the appropriate State Archive for further information. To obtain information concerning emigrants who left after 1848, the Schweizer Bundesregierung, Bundeshaus, CH-3000 Bern, Switzerland, can be contacted.
Resources:
- http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/CH/emigra-m.htm - lists emigration sources by canton.

Steinemann, Ernst, ed. “A List of Eighteenth-Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen to the American Colonies, 1734-1752.” Pennsylvania German Folklore Society 16 (1951): 185-96. (FHL US/CAN 974.8 C4fg V.16, p. 185-196)

Swiss Immigration Entries of Genealogical Value from Der Stern, 1869-1901. (FHL INTL 949.4 B2ds).

German Speaking Emigrants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

German Speaking Emigrants from Switzerland, Austria and Germany from 1869-85 coming through Liverpool were recorded in "Der Stern" .  The call number is 940 B2ds

Departure dates and ship names are listed below:

25 Aug. 1869 Ship SS Minnesota

13 Jul. 1870 Ship SS Manhatten

21 Jun  1871 Ship SS Wyoming

6 Sep. 1871 Ship SS Nevada

12 Jun 1872 Ship SS Manhatten

10 Jul 1873 Ship SS Nevada

10 June 1874 Ship SS Nevada

8 July 1874 Ship:  SS Minnesota

2 Sep. 1874 Ship SS Wyoming

16 June 1875  (Ship unknown)

29 June 1876 Ship SS Idaho

27 June 1877 Ship SS Wisconsin

15 June 1878 Ship SS Montana

15 Sep 1878 Ship SS Wyoming

24 May 1879 (Unknown ship)

4 Sep. 1880 Ship SS Nevada

21 May 1881 Ship SS Wyoming

3 Sep 1881 Ship SS Wyoming

17 May 1882 Ship SS Nevada

2 Sep 1882 Ship SS Wyoming

16 May 1883 Ship SS Nevada

30 Aug 1884 Ship SS Wyoming

In the years 1888 to 1900 the following information is listed:

1. Names of the families in alphabetical order

2. Places of origin in Germany and Switzerland

3. Places of destination and residents in the United States.