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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Regional emigrant databases: DELAUS – Delmenhorst 1830-1930, CUXAUS Cuxhaven 1830-1930, CLAUS - Cloppenburg and Vechta areas 1830- abt. 1875, – Bad Laer near Osnabrueck


 * 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
 * Index to lists of emigrants published by Heinz Marxkors. The actual books are available in the St. Louis, MO, public library.

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

 * Alfter, Rheingau: http://www.wgrichter.de/Genea/ausalf.html
 * Borgholz and Burgsteinfurt, Muensterland, Westfalen: http://www.stenvorde.de/auswanderer_02_inhaltsverzeichnis.html
 * Buer, Westfalen: http://www.buer-us.de/
 * Daverden, northern Germany: http://www.daverden.de/auswanderer_liste.php
 * Gechingen, Wuerttemberg: http://www.appeleshof.de/Inhalt/auswand/index.htm
 * Neuhausen ob Eck: http://www.lang-germany.de/Archiv/Auswanderer_/auswanderer_.htm
 * Rheine, Westfalen: http://www.rheineahnen.de/listdoc/auswand.htm
 * Ridelingsdorf: http://members.aon.at/mgvriedlingsdorf/awverz.htm
 * Rommelshausen, OA Cannstadt, Wuerttemberg: http://www.thomas-scharnowski.de/rommelshausen/auswanderer_rommelshausen.htm
 * Selzen: http://selzen.de/geschichte/g_amerika.htm
 * Taben-Rodt, Trier region, Rheinland: http://www.taben-rodt.de/Auswanderer/auswanderer.html
 * Venne parish, Osnabrück: http://biggislist.genealogy.net/cgi-bin//redirect.cgi/http://www.venne-families.de/
 * Weisweil (Rhein): http://www.weisweil.de/freizeit_kultur/geschichte/auswanderer/f_auswand.html
 * Wuesten, Germany before 1900: http://www.woiste.de/W-Auf-AW.html

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 4 Feb 2009