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Ancestry.com - Search Immigration & Travel

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

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BallinStadt - The Emigration Museum Hamburg

Searchable database extracted from the Hamburg Passenger Lists for selected years. A major port of embarkation for Eastern Europeans.

Bremen Emigrants - Passengerlists

Online searchable database of passenger lists. A project with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Staatsarchiv.

Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank / German Emigrants Database

From the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Sources are passenger lists. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee.

Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven / German Emigration Center Bremerhaven

Europe's largest and most modern theme museum on the topic of emigration and winner of the prestigious award.

FamilySearch - Auswandererlisten, 1850-1934

Title Also Known As: The Hamburg passenger lists.

FamilySearch - Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 ^FREE

These are index cards, arranged alphabetically by place of last residence and then by surname, of German emigrants, based upon the Bremen Passenger Lists. Includes marital status, occupation, ship name, place of last residence, and destination. For some countries, such as Austria, the arrangement is chronological by departure date, with names grouped alphabetically by ship name for that date. Many cards are not in sequence. Includes index cards for Jewish emigrants. The information contained in this index is for the years 1907-1908 and 1913-1914 only.

FamilySearch Wiki - Germany Emigration and Immigration

FamilySearch Wiki - Hamburg Passenger Lists

Historical Family Research - Index of emigrants (click alphabet)

The list consists of over 8000 emigrants of the period of about 1830 to 1914. They mostly originate from the districts of Lower and Upper Bavaria as well as Upper Palatinate and Frankonia. Sources are state and church archives, private collections, contemporary newspaper publications and literature.

ISTG - Bremen Departures

From the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild and Die Maus Genealogical Society of Bremen Germany.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Emigration via Hamburg $

By Andrea Bentschneider. Legacy Family Tree Webinars are available with a monthly or annual webinar membership subscription.

Merika - Emigration from Central Europe to America 1880-1914

A downloadable PDF book by Ervin Dubrović.

NARA Access to Archival Databases (AAD) - Germans to America Passenger Data File, 1850 - 1897

Olive Tree Genealogy - Palatine German Genealogy & Ships Passenger Lists

Olive Tree Genealogy: Search Engines for Ships Passenger Lists from Germany

Custom Search Engine allows you to search multiple Internet sites for Passenger Lists of ships sailing from Germany to North America.

Olive Tree Genealogy: Ships Passenger Lists, Germans & Swiss to America

Online German Emigration Records, Lists and Indexes

A directory of online German emigration databases - lists of people who emigrated from Germany.

Palatine Ships Passenger Lists from Germany to Pennsylvania 1727 to 1808

Search ships passenger lists carrying Palatines from Germany to Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Read an explanation of Palatines and their ordeal.