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Hamburg Passenger Lists

Over 5 million entries

80% of passengers went to the US. 20% migrated to other countries. 1/3 were German other 2/3 of passengers were from Eastern Europe.

Direct Passenger Lists - passenger departed from Hamburg, and arrived in another port without changing ships.

Indirect Passenger Lists - Passengers departed Hamburg, but switched at other ports, hence indirect route. These indirect routes were cheaper.

Hamburg State Archives and Ancestry.com digitized microfilmed Hamburg Passenger Lists and now they are viewable on Ancestry.com

Hamburg was second after Bremen in immigrants leaving Germany. Most Bremen records were lost or destroyed to accidental fire, and intentional archive clean up.

Immigration Museum in Hamburg, here is the link:

https://www.ballinstadt.de/?lang=en

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