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

• http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/wiki/Germans_to_America - German and American sources for German emigration to America
• http://www.dausa.de/ - Forschungsstelle deutscher Auswanderer in die USA, discusses the problems with “Germans to America” at length, has links to sites containing transcribed passenger lists, offers research services
• http://www.deutsche auswanderer datenbank.de/ - “German Emigrant Data Base”, covers 1820-1939; main source of information base are the New York passenger lists beginning in 1820, supplemented by material found in Germany; inter-disciplinary, on-going project. It is not searchable online at this time, but search requests can be sent to their volunteer group “for a small fee”
• http://www.dogpile.com/ - Meta search engine- useful for searching for a topic, such as “Auswanderer, Auswanderung, emigration ,immigration” etc. Good way to find little-known lists of emigrants
• http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/ - “Palmer list of merchant vessels” – contains descriptions and pictures of European sailing vessels, including many earlier emigrant ships
• http://www.1837online.com/aobd/ - “ancestors on board – a journey of discovery”
• http://www.ghi-dc.org/guide12/ - Americana in German Archives
• http://www.anthonj.de/genealogen/wollmershaeuser/d/Auswanderer.html - list of data bases compiled by Friedrich Wollmershaeuser for southwestern German emigrants [actual data bases NOT included]

U.S. and German passenger lists and indexes

• http://www.ellisisland.org - New York arrivals 1892-1924, limited search functionality, includes images
• http://www.castlegarden.org – passenger arrivals in New York 1820-1913, currently not linked to images
• http://www.stevemorse.org – improved search masks for the Ellis Island website and Castlegarden.org, which allows searches by various fields, with or without a complete name
• http://www.ancestry.com  includes an ever-increasing number of passenger list indexes and linked images, including New York 1851-1891 and several other major ports. Many major public libraries have the “library edition”
• http://home.att.net/~wee monster/ei.html - Emigration and immigration links
• http://www.ingeneas.com/ - data base of emigrants coming through Canada
• http://www.roots-in-germany.de/ - Routes to the Roots- the Emigrant experience on the Web, has good links to emigrant data bases arranged by geographical area
• http://www.routes.de/database.html links to several regional emigrant databases: DELAUS – Delmenhorst 1830-1930, CUXAUS Cuxhaven 1830-1930, CLAUS - Cloppenburg and Vechta areas 1830- abt. 1875, – Bad Laer - 19th Century emigration from Bad Laer near Osnabrueck
• http://istg.rootsweb.com/ - Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild, contains transcriptions of various passenger lists
• http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Texas_Seaport_Museum.asp- Galveston Immigration data base, free, but need to get user-ID and password
• http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html - Immigration and ship passengers research guide - helpful!
• http://www.passagierlisten.de/ - Bremen passenger lists 1920-1939
• http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/immigr.htm - links to passenger lists for various countries
• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html - emigration resources and links to passenger lists
• http://www.frenchlines.com/passager_index_fr.php - lists of passengers on French ships
• http://www.saxonyroots.com/ships/ - transcribed passenger lists sent in by volunteers
• http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html - finding passenger lists on the Internet
• http://home.foni.net/~adelsforschung/auswand00.htm - lists of emigrants from noble families

Regional Lists and Indexes of Emigrants

Baden

• http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/ - data base of emigrants from Baden and Wuerttemberg, known as “Glatzle” collection
• http://www.emigration-offenburg.de/english_code/isucheing_1.php - emigrants from the Offenburg area
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~herz/ind/index.htm - links for towns Kuppenheim, Steinmauern, Oetigheim, Stein am Kocher, Herbolzheim, Kochertürn, Neckarsulm, Binswangen, Dahenfeld, and Schefflenz include lists of emigrants from each locality

Bayern

• http://www.emigration-research.de.vu/ - list of emigrants from Oberbayern –obtain town o origin from compiler for a fee

Braunschweig

• http://www.thomas-erbe.de/ahnen/buch/001.htm - every-name index to: Fritz Gruhne, Auswandererlisten des ehemaligen Herzogtums Braunschweig 1846-1871. The book is available at the Family History Library, call # 943.59 W29g, [Int’l Reference], on microfilm 1045468 Item 10

Hannover

• http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/ - Niedersachsen State archives searchable archive inventory online, which includes a list of emigrants from the areas covered by the various state archives
• Click on “Auswanderersuche” to the right of the “Suchen”[search] field
• Enter surname in field labeled “Suchbegriffe” and click on “Weiter”
• The next screen displays the ecord groups selected for the earch. Click “suchen”
• The list of hits s displayed next. If nothng was found, it may say “keine Treffer” [no hits]
• Click “erneute Suche” if you want to search again
• http://www.nordfriiskinstituut.de/datenbank.html - Emigrants from Northern Friesland-data base
• http://www.routes.de/linksammlung/004NS.htm - emigration sources for the modern state of Niedersachsen, includes material for Oldenburg
• http://www.pohlw.de/vor_ort/emigration_whs/index.htm - emigration from the former county of Wildeshausen
• http://hapag-halle-cuxhaven.de/auswandererdatenbank/ - data base of emigrants who left from the port of Cuxhaven
• http://www.emslanders.com/ - emigrants from the Emsland region [Hannover] to the Midwestern States
• http://www.dialogos-studies.com/bisemigrants.htm - emigrants from the Grafschaft of Bentheim

Hessen

• http://www.hadis.hessen.de – Online inventory system for the Hessen State archives. Enter the surname in the box labeled „Schnellsuche“ . Emigrants specifically are found under the heading „Auswanderer-Nachweise“, but can be found under other topics as well. Click on the topic for a detailed list of entries
• http://home.t-online.de/home/michel-walluf/seite16.htm - Auswanderung aus dem Rheingau

Lippe-Detmold

• http://www.lippe-auswanderer.de/htm/auswanderer-usa-eng.htm - data base of emigrants from Lippe-Detmold

Mecklenburg-Schwerin

• http://www.imar mv.com/ - Institute for migration and ancestral research in Mecklenburg - has large data base they will search upon request (25,000 names)
• http://www.griesegegend-online.de/datenbank.htm -various lists of emigrants; some list only names, other extensive personal information

Mecklenburg-Strelitz

• http://www.emecklenburg.de/MFP/database/auswanderer.php - data base of emigrants

Oldenburg

• http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/auswanderer/auswanderer.html - list of emigrants from Oldenburg [Oldenburg Genealogical Society]
• http://www.honkomp.de/damme auswanderung/ - Emigrants from the old district of Damme, Oldenburg
• http://www.honkomp.de/damme-auswanderung/chapter0.htm - emigrants from Amt Damme, from the book by Ostendorp
• http://www.familie-bloemer.de/gene/ - lists of emigrants from the Southern part of Oldenburg, known as ‘Oldenburger Muensterland’ (predominantly Catholic)
• http://www.auswanderungdelmenhorst.de/ - Emigrants from the district of Delmenhorst
• http://www.honkomp.de/damme-auswanderung/ - history of emigration from the for district of Damme

Rheinland

• http://www.koblenz.de/bilder/K06/K06_Auswanderung.pdf - About emigration from the Koblenz area - on the City Archive web site, gives contact address, in German
• http://www2.genealogy.net/vereine/ArGeWe/englisch/index-e.htm - emigrants from the Westerwald region
• http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/wgff/trier/index.html - emigrants from the former Regierungsbezirk Trier 1700-1900

Sachsen

• http://www.beepworld.de/members81/saxonforefathers/index.htm - lists names and date of emigration, but not town of origin. Further information can be requested from site owner

Schaumburg-Lippe

• http://www.blume-gen.de/ - click on “Schaumburger Auswanderer” on the right for a list of emigrants from Schaumburg-Lippe

Schleswig-Holstein

• http://www.aggsh.net/ger/pag/ausw-oo.htm - Listing of some emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein.
• http://www.aggsh.de/german/projecys/awd/
• http://www.rootdigger.de/Emi.htm - emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein [commercial, searching of list is free, emigrant’s place of origin provided by compiler upon fee payment]
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ccho/fohr/wc_toc.htm - emigrants and genealogy of the island of Foehr

Thueringen

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocooper/ - This website includes separate data bases for emigrants from Sachsen-Coburg, Sachsen-Kronach, and Sachsen-Meiningen. Click on “Cooper County in the left-side menu bar and go to “immigration”

Westfalen

• http://www.routes.de/linksammlung/004NW.htm - links to lists of emigrants from the area of modern-day Nordrhein-Westfalen - a good collection
• http://www.amerikanetz.de/ - resources for emigration from Westfalen, includes various articles, links to sources on CD-Rom, and books

Wittgenstein

• http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/NRHE-WFA/Wittgenstein/emigration/auswandererlistenemigrantlists/index.php -webpages with lists of emigrants from the Wittgenstein principalities, history of emigration, an other resources
• http://www.herbert-klose.de/Auswanderer.html - emigrants from Wittgenstein - link collection

Wuerttemberg

• http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/ - data base of emigrants from Baden and Wuerttemberg, known as “Glatzle” collection

Lists of emigrants from individual towns

• http://www.appeleshof.de/Inhalt/auswand/index.htm - emigrants from Gechingen, Wuerttemberg
• http://www.daverden.de/auswanderer_liste.php - Emigrants from Daverden, Northern Germany
• http://www.woiste.de/W-Auf-AW.html - emigrants from Wuesten, Germany, up to 1900
• http://www.lang-germany.de/Archiv/Auswanderer_/auswanderer_.htm - lists of emigrants – emigrants from Neuhausen ob Eck
• http://members.aon.at/mgvriedlingsdorf/awverz.htm - emigrants from Riedlingsdorf
• http://www.weisweil.de/freizeit_kultur/geschichte/auswanderer/f_auswand.html - emigrants fromWeisweil [Rhein]
• http://selzen.de/geschichte/g_amerika.htm - emigrants from Selzen
• http://www.taben-rodt.de/Auswanderer/auswanderer.html - emigrants from Taben-Rodt, Trier region, Rheinland
• http://biggislist.genealogy.net/cgi-bin//redirect.cgi/http://www.venne-families.de/ - emigrants fromVenne parish, district of Osnabrueck
• http://www.wgrichter.de/Genea/ausalf.html - emigration from Alfter, Rheingau area.
• http://www.buer-us.de/ - emigrants from Buer, Westfalen
• http://steinfurt.active-city.net/city_info/display/dokument/show.cfm?region_id=125&design_id=1796&id=13761 – emigrants from Borgholz, Burgsteinfurt, an Amt Steinfurt, Muensterland, Westfalen. [PDF file]. Same information in html is found at http://www.stenvorde.de/auswanderer_02_inhaltsverzeichnis.html.
• http://www.rheineahnen.de/listdoc/auswand.htm - emigrants from Rheine, Westfalen
• http://www.thomas-scharnowski.de/rommelshausen/auswanderer_rommelshausen.htm emigrants from Rommelshausen, OA Cannstadt, Wuerttemberg

Germans to Latin America

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~brawgw/alemanha/historia_petropolis_imi1859.htm lists of Germans immigrating to Brazil [in Portuguese]
• http://www.pilleux.cl/genealogia/Alemanes/ - German immigrants to Chile

last updated 10 June 2008