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Note: "Emigration" means "to leave." These are records (or indexes to the records) of people who left Germany for somewhere else (usually North America). Emigration lists can be helpful for determining place of birth or residence, and the year or date someone left Germany. Names of spouses and children are often included. These emigration lists are free to search, except those marked "requires payment." Baden-Württemberg Württemberg Emigration Index a separate webpage has been set up to explain the various ways of searching this index, both online and off Baden Emigration Index a separate webpage has been set up to explain the various ways of searching this index, both online and off Auswanderung aus Südwestdeutschland - Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (this site is in German) You can search a database for Baden, Württemberg or Hohenzollern emigration here for free. When you get there click on "English" for an English language version. Emigrants from Kreis Heidenheim (about 50 km north of Ulm in today's Baden-Württemberg)...
Offenburger Auswanderer Searchable database of emigrants from Offenburg (in Baden) to North America Emigrants from Külsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany to America & Elsewhere Emigrants from Kuppenheim, Rastatt, Baden Emigrants from Weisweil, Baden Brandenburg Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records Index These records are also available on microfiche from the Family History Library under the title: Brandenburgishes Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, Auswanerungskartei. FHL microfiche #6109219 (22 total Fiches). Hesse (Hessen) Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt Auswanderer-Nachweise Emigration database from the Hessen State Archives in Darmstadt (type a name or surname into the box under "Schnellsuche" then click the magnifying glass icon) Gross-Umstadt [Groß-Umstadt] Emigrants Mecklenburg IMAR Mecklenburg Emigrant Database - Surnames About 20,000 names (of 170,000) have been entered so far into this database, which is searchable online by surname only. A donation is requested to obtain the full listing by mail. Names of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Emigrants 1844-1915 Lists about 2,800 emigrants from the district of Schwerin only. Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Niedersachsen Staatsarchive Search for emigrants from Hannover, Osnabrück & Wolfenbüttel 1825-1870 [English Instructions for Using This Site] Auswanderung aus dem alten Amt Wildeshausen Emigrants from the former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (now Niedersachsen), Germany, mainly to the United States, 1830-1849 Landkreis Cuxhaven Emigrants 1830-1930 Emigrant List from the former Duchy of Braunschweig 1846-1871 except the City of Braunschweig & the County of Holzminden, by Fritz Gruhne (surnames from the book) Emigrants from Elmsland, Niedersachsen to the American Mid-West (19th Century) mostly to Illinios & Missouri Schaumburger Auswanderer 1820-1914 Nordrhein-Westfalen Hegensdorfer Auswanderer 1824-1893 [on this website] List of emigrants from the village of Hegensdorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Also includes the nearby village of Keddinghausen. Großeneder Auswanderer List of 19th century emigrants from the village of Grosseneder in Nordrhein-Westfalen. (The German Roots webmaster has ancestors from this village.) Emigrants from Kreis Meschede and Kreis Olpe (Westfalen) to the USA Heimliche Auswanderung [Secret Emigration] aus 15 Orten (709 Personen) A list of 709 people who emigrated from the Eastern part of Westfalen (today Nordrhein-Westfalen). These emigrants are from the following towns: Auenhausen, Borgentreich, Borgholz, Buehne, Dalhausen, Drankhausen, Manrode, Muddenhagen, Natingen, Natzungen, Ossendorf, Rothe, Sandebeck, Scherfede.
This village is now part of Ahaus. Lippe Emigration Database - Emigration from Lippe to the USA Rheinland-Pfalz, Palatinate Emigration Irscher Bürger nach Nord Amerika (1856-1882) Saarland Emigrants from Reimsbach (Saarland) to America 1846-1889 Schleswig-Holstein Emigration out of Schleswig-Holstein, 19th Century a database with approximately 50,000 names Dithmarschen Emigrants (1868-1920) A listing of about 3600 people who emigrated from Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein. Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein Applications of Emigration, 1868-1884 Emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein to New Amsterdam (now New York) in 1636-1667 Thüringen (Thuringia) Some 19th Century Emigrants from Sachsen-Coburg, Sachsen-Kronach and Sachsen-Meiningen (Coburg and Kronach are now in Bavaria) General & Misc The Hamburg Passenger Departure Records [on this website] Information about the Hamburg, Germany passenger departure records -- how to research them online and off. Bremen Passenger Lists 1920-1939 While most of the Bremen passenger departure records were destroyed, about 3000 of them from 1920-1939 (still incomplete) have survived and are stored at the Bremen Chamber of Commerce. A Bremen based genealogical society called Die Maus is transcribing these lists and putting them on their website. Emigration from Banat This database is taken from US Customs & Immigration passenger ship records prior to World War I. The mostly German settled Banat area was once part of the Austrian Empire and is now divided among Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary. The Old Lutheran Emigration at the Middle of the 19th Century by Wilhelm Iwan scanned book Books with Emigration Lists available from Amazon.com Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany to America and Other Countries by Werner Hacker (covers parts of today's areas of Rhineland-Pfalz, Saarland & Baden-Wuerttemberg/about 30,000 total listings) Emigrants from Fellbach 1735-1930 by Clifford N. Smith (Fellbach is a town in Baden-Wuerttemberg) 19th-Century Emigration from the Siegkreis (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany -- Mainly to the United States) by Clifford N. Smith Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (Now Niedersachsen), Germany; Mainly to the United States 1830-1849 by Clifford N. Smith Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration by Walter Allen Knittle Lists the names of about 12,000 Palatine settlers mostly to Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys of New York, with their dates of emigration. See Finding Passenger Lists Before 1820 for more Palatine emigration material. Contribute Your German Emigration Data If you have a transcribed German emigration list and would like to see it on this website, click on this link: Contribute Your German Emigration Lists & Data Finding Emigration Lists Offline The Family History Library has microfilmed many German emigration lists and these microfilms can be ordered for viewing for a small fee at any Family History Center. To find these records, do a place search for the area you are interested in and then look for the "emigration & immigration" topic. Start with the smallest place (name of town or village) and then work your way back to the kreis (county), state or region. Many of these emigration lists will have a variation of the German word "Auswanderer" in their title. Use the link below to start your search. Finding Passenger Lists 1820-1940s Emigration & Immigration Research Links More German Databases Online Genealogy Databases (General)
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