Bremen, Germany Genealogy

Germany  Bremen (Bremen)

Guide to Bremen (Bremen), Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

How to Find Birth, Marriage, and Death Records for Bremen

 * How to Find Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
 * Civil Registration
 * Church Records
 * '''Town Genealogies

Find Important Information About Your Ancestors Town

 * To begin using the records of Germany, knowing that your family came from Hessen will not be enough to use the records of Germany. Records are kept on the local level, so you will have to know the town they lived in.
 * Details about the town will also help:
 * the county or "Bezirkamt" of that town,
 * where the closest Evangelical Lutheran or Catholic parish church was (depending on their religion),
 * where the civil registration office ("Standesamt") was, and
 * if you have only a village name, you will need the name of the larger town it was part of.

Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin
If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it. These records unique to Bremen can help. Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists the German Emigration Database at Bremerhaven Compiled Genealogies
 * Use Gathering Information to Locate Place of Origin as a guide in exhausting every possible record to find what you need.
 * Bremer Passagierlisten
 * Seaman's Licenses, 1806-1878. Index, ($)
 * Bremen, Germany Ships Crew Lists (Bremer Musterungslisten der Schiffe),($). 1815-1917. Index and images. In German.
 * Bremen, Germany Sailors Registry (Bremer Seeleuteregister), ($). 1824-1917. Index and images. In German.
 * Bremen, German Desertions of Sailors, 1855-1874 (Seemansamt Bremen, Deserteurlisten, 1855-18740. Index and images.
 * Germany, Bremen, Select Passenger Departure Lists (Deutschland, Bremen, ausgewählte Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten), ($). 1904-1914. Index and images. In German.
 * . 1904-1914. Index. Incomplete.
 * Bremen passenger lists, 1920-1939
 * Mous Families-Members, ($)
 * die Maus Family Collections, Gray Binders, ($)
 * die Maus, Family records, 1824-1933, index, ($)

Directories
 * Bremen Address Books (Bremer Addressbuecher),1794-1955. in German.
 * Directories on die Maus, 1794-1955, ($)

Details: Meyers Gazetteer
Once you know the town name you need, the other facts you need are contained in Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-lexikon des deutschen Reichs, the gazetteer on which the FamilySearch catalog for Germany is based.
 * Use MeyersGaz, the digital gazetteer, to find the details you need, particularly the Bezirksamt it belonged to, found after (BA) and the Regierungsbezirk (Administrative District) Niederbayern (RB).
 * MeyersGaz Help Guide
 * Abbreviation Table
 * Here is part of an entry from MeyersGaz.org. 

Research Tools

 * Die Maus: The link contains information about emigration, family books from various areas of Bremen locations, citizenship lists, civil registration
 * Germany, Bremen Name Card Index to Passenger Lists (FamilySearch Historical Recods)
 * German Word List
 * Latin Word List
 * Handwriting
 * Handwriting Guide
 * German Handwriting Tutorial
 * Kurrentschrift Converter (enter German genealogical word, click on "convert", view your word in Kurrentschrift (Gothic handwriting)