Garonne 21 August Millions of people left Germany in several waves of migration. Garonne 21 August SS Braunschweig 17 November Grace Brown 17 July Leontine 28 June Autoleon 3 September Bark Edward 5 September Ship Joseph Holmes 20 September Goethe 7 July Philadelphia 12 September This collection includes records from 1904 to 1914 of handwritten cards, covering the information of approximately 8,800 passengers. Westphalia 17 February By David Luhrssen. Virginia 29 July Copernicus 18 December Howard 1 May These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. History of Emigration from the German Ports of Hamburg and Bremen with a discussion of how the two major steamship companies competed with one another for the immigrant trade. Washington 26 October The Lloyd, founded in 1857, never possessed a sailing vessel. 1833 Caspar 22 September Condor 9 August Agnes 29 December Edward 24 July Sophie 12 October Any description of the development or present status of Hamburg lines must center in the Hamburg-American Line. This attracted even more emigrants to the port of Hamburg. Who Should Emigrate to Canada and USA (1883), Emigration of Women from Great Britain in 1888, In The Paths of Immigration to America - 1902, Emigration from Rotterdam, Netherlands (1903), Considering The Causes of Emigration (1904), Italy's Attitude Toward Her Emigrants - 1905, The Human Side of Immigration - Italian Emigration to America (1906), Emigrants leaving Europe via Rotterdam (1908), Emigration from the German Ports of Hamburg and Bremen (1911), Medical & Mental Inspection of Immigrants. Philadelphia 4 January Immigration & Steamships - Collections & Research Immigration & Steamships Tap or click on a column heading to sort by that column. Caspar 22 September Sju Brder 22 November Many cards are not in sequence. Rajah 28 October Elise 17 March To improve Hamburg's reputation as an emigration port, the Senate passed laws to protect emigrants and guaranteed sufficient food, space, and medical care on the journey. Bremen 14 September Bark Union 6 October U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes. Ernst and Gustav 4 November The extent of original materials at the GG Archives can be very beneficial when researching your family's migration from Europe. Ship Aequator 5 September Grace Brown 17 July The Hapag was left with a fleet out of all proportion to its needs, into which it could not grow for years to come. GGA Image ID # 1413ad196f, German emigration to the United States, in those years since 1870 when it exceeded 100,000, was as follows:[3], German Emigration to the United States, 1870-1892. Emma 12 March Emigrant letters could be examined but any sample of fares that could be obtained would be small and of unclear accuracy. Philadelphia 12 July Neptune 4 August Lucilla 3rd Quarter Iris 24 December Astracan 23 December Amelia 4 August German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York Antilope 13 August [5] 1907 Report of the United States Commissioner of Navigation, pages 146-7. 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The new Edward Carr line and the old Hamburg shipowner, Robert Sloman, who had instituted as early as 1849 an emigrant sailing line to New York, united to form the Union Steamship Company, which fought the Hapags line to New York. Alwina 11 January Philadelphia 22 August The Hapag, which had paid 12, 16 and 20 per cent dividends in the years 1871-73, paid no more dividends until 1878. Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 Bark Josephine 10 November Diana 5 August Isabella 28 August In 1895 the German emigration dropped to 82,000 and has never since reached 50,000. Humphrey 13 February Ship Louisiana 21 October Schutzverwandtschaft (17th century-1811,1837-1864), U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes, "Emigration from the Port of Hamburg, Germany. Diana 3 June After docking in New York on August 28, 1939, only four days before the outbreak of World War II, Captain Adolf Ahrens of Germany's North German Lloyd shipping line was faced with a decision. Washington 29 September The Hapag instituted a service to the West Indies; in the same year the Hamburg South American Steamship Company was founded to ply between Hamburg, Brazil and the la Plata. Bremen, Germany Ships Crew Lists (Bremer Musterungslisten der Schiffe), Bremen, Germany Sailors Registry (Bremer Seeleuteregister), Bremen, German Desertions of Sailors, 1855-1874 (Seemansamt Bremen, Deserteurlisten, 1855-1874, Germany, Bremen, Select Passenger Departure Lists (Deutschland, Bremen, ausgewhlte Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten), Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists (Deutschland, Bremen, Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten), The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934. (Nauticus, 1909, page 298.) The ships will call at a hundred or more places on the west coast. Ship Ocean 13 January Charlemagne 15 July The saving in time which the steamers affordedthough slight at firsttheir greater steadiness and safety, conspired to give them the preference in the Hapags fleet. SS Knig Wilhelm 5 September Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and used as a supply ship during the German invasion of Norway. For the actual lists see: www.passengerlists.de. 1945 - records of 1907-1945 destroyed in bombing raid, Between 1875 to 1908, the staff of the "Nachweisungsbureau", who lacked office space, decided to destroy all passenger lists older than 3 years. Ferdinand 15 August Diana 11 November Diana 24 November Stephani 14 October Passenger Arrival Lists | National Archives ISTG Vol 19 - Bremen Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Bremen List of Passengers arrived from Foreign Ports, In the Port of Galveston, during the Second Quarter (10 May), 1871 (John Hellmers, Master) The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Hamburg_Emigration/Immigration&oldid=5187154. Bremen, along with Hamburg and Luebeck, was of of the three major trans-shipping centers from northern Germany. Bremen, Germany to New York 22 May 1867 . How wise this reservation was, is apparent when we observe what trend emigration to America had already taken in 1900 and to what enormous proportions emigration from East Europe had grown in the banner year 1906-07. Elizabeth Bruce 12 November SS Nurnberg 12 March Lucilla 3rd Quarter Louise 13 October Europa 8 November Bark Weser 26 November, 1867 Vesper 13 September Elizabeth 15 January Germany Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch Bark Gutenberg 16 May Repeat this process for each new generation you identify. Edward 28 July Brig Ivanhoe 31 July, 1836 There were enacted in Bremen severe regulations against ill-housing, underfeeding, swindling or otherwise maltreating emigrants, matters to which Hamborg was too long indifferent. Devonshire 18 November However, they only included those immigrants where the place of origin was given (most passenger lists in this time frame do not have this information), so they are only partially useful. Elizabeth Bruce 12 November Friedrich Leo 2 August Mercur 24 August Copernicus 18 December Diana 24 November Meta 4 January Dethard 2 January Transcribed Ships Manifests Departing from Germany Ports of departure include: Altona, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Geestemunde, Hamburg, Stettin, Swinemunde (currently Swinoujscie, Poland), German Unspecified Ports Search by Year of Departure [1700s] [1800s] [1810s] [1820s] [1830s] [1840s] [1850s] [1860s] [1870s] [1880s] [1890s] [1900 - 1950s] Margaretha 1 September Paul earned a Masters of Archival Studies - a terminal degree from Clayton State University in Georgia, where he studied under renowned archivist Richard Pearce-Moses. The Hapag has no connection with the Hamburg-Australian ; there was long, apparently, an understanding between the Hapag and the Lloyd that Australia should be left to the Lloyd, in return for which the latter kept her hands off Africa. Everhard 30 December Astracan 23 December B. Bohlen 11 June Eutaw 15 September Astracan 23 December SS Hermann 5 October, 1883 Friedrich Leo 2 August Olbers 13 June He speaks of clippers, those magnificent sailing liners, first built in America, whose length is to their breadth as 8:1. Eutaw 15 September Diana 11 November This page has been viewed 37,687 times (3,809 via redirect). Stern 25 June Vesper 13 September Bark Meridian 16 September Emma 7 October Sir Isaac Newton 19 June Leontine 28 June Ship Hermann 6 November Diana 21 November Luise 22 May This compiled list can help you identify possible relations that can be further verified by researching, When you have located your ancestors record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. 1843 Sophronia 13 September With the exception of 2,953 passenger lists for the year 1920-1939 all other lists were lost in World War II. FamilySearch Wiki - Germany Emigration and Immigration, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, With Places of Origin, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, With Places of Origin, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1868-1871, Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Bremen, Germany. This can help you identify other generations of your family. Book: New World Immigrants a Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature by Michael Tepper (Editor); GPC 1988. Save a copy of the image or transcribe the information. Ship Louise Marie 24 May Olbers 4 January Charles 28 August FREE. Gustav 7 May After ten years of service, she had almost 190 transatlantic voyages completed. Clementine 28 July Telumah 12 November Gustav 25 May The GG Archives is the work and passion of two people, Paul Gjenvick, a professional archivist, and Evelyne Gjenvick, a curator. to retrieve any portion of the site. Friedrich Leo 2 August Figures of the Landing Agent of the United States Immigration Service, published in New York papers, January 11, 1911.). Reform 4 September 1842 Mauran 11 November At first it ran through the Suez Canal and down the east coast as far as Delagoa Bay. Louise 24 October Ship Phoenix 19 May In 1873 the Hapag fell into a rate war with the newly founded Adler Line, established to partake in the profits of the transatlantic trade. Goethe 7 July This page was last edited on 15 September 2022, at 09:20. Hamburg became a port of emigration because of its competition with Bremen as a seaport for trade. Assuming an average fare of $86.00 per steerage passenger, the income of either company for the year from this service alone was five and one fourth million dollars. Sarah Ann 6 October Caspar 21 August Eliza Thornton 30 October Louise Friedericke27 January Inquiries and/or questions to the Bremen Passenger Lists will be replied to by members of DIE MAUS at kwesling(at)gmx.de.[3]. Johannes 18 July Olbers 12 December There was a Meldepflicht (obligation to register) in force since 1833 (mainly for non-Hamburgers), but it was not mandatory until 1892. Ship Leontine 31 August Friedrich Leo 2 August Hualco 21 August Brarens 18 January Bremen 4 December SS Baltimore 10 October Bark Creole 30 September . Cordova 24 November Sophronia 13 September Herschel 15 August Ann 1 September F H Adami 25 October Emma 12 March Brig President 26 August Republic 13 June All Rights Reserved. Eliza Thornton 30 October Louise 10 October Washington 29 September The records of departures from these ports are called passenger lists. The ship logo, which is still used in part, was . Bark Coriolan 26 June to retrieve any portion of the site. arriving on 27 May 1887 with 485 passengers from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Hungary, Austria, England, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, France, Poland, Belgium and Brazil. Alfred 30 October Ships are so equipped that certain decks may serve as cargo space for the east-bound trip and in Bremen and Hamburg be transformed into steerage quarters for the west-bound. Philadelphia 11 May Friederich Jacob 9 December Eutaw 15 September Ship Uhland 16 June Bark Ottillie 5 July, 1866 Plato 30 October Ship Virginia 7 November Content: Passenger lists. Paoli 9 August Copies of lists from 1907/08 and 1913/14 had been provided for statistical evaluations in Stuttgart. Louise 9 September Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. Stephani 12 July Mauran 11 November Knickerbocker 9 September Friedrich Leo 2 August Pauline 7 October Bark Auguste 4 October Eutaw 15 September Ann 1 September F H Adami 25 October Constitution 23 June [6] In 1866 Adolph Wagner wrote an article on Ocean Transportation in Rentschs Handwrterbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Johann Friedrich 19 June Pauline 7 October In the ports controlled by the Hanse city of Bremen, ship . Josephine 8 November Olbers 13 June Gustav 7 May Ferdinand 15 August The following articles will help you research your family in Germany. Knickerbocker 9 September Clarissa Perkins 11 July Ellen Brooks 28 October Includes marital status, occupation, ship name, place of last residence, and destination. Moreover, Hamburg was learning from Bremen how to and attract emigrants. Republic 13 June Louise 13 October Not only is it the largest steamship company in any country, but it comprises half the ocean shipping of Hamburg, affords a far larger proportion of her connections with oversea and is actively interested in all the other larger lines excepting the German Australian Steamship Company. The Kosmos also has a line from Genoa to West America and in the course of its career has bought up the rival Hamburg Pacific Steamship Company. Jaroschewski, Tuila. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. Sju Brder 22 November Bark Charlotte 17 December, 1848 SS Trave 17 December Ship Johanne Wilhelmine 5 November Steamer Ohio 31 July Pioneer 21 September Eutaw 15 September Devonshire 18 November General Washington 24 November, 1843 Olbers 12 December Reform 4 September Luise 3 June SS Leipzig 4 August Sarah Ann 6 October This may require viewing multiple records or images. Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in Germany. Clarissa Perkins 11 July Stephani 8 February Ajax 11 September Ship Adler 25 June Most emigrants left Germany during the following periods: The earliest German emigrants went down the Rhine River and left Europe from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Herschel 15 August Ship Pharsalia 11 November, 1849 The Hapag and Woermann are now financially interested in the line. Martha 1 September Bremen 14 September For a comprehensive understanding of emigration and immigration records, study the article Germany Emigration and Immigration. Reform 4 September Bashan 3 November Bark Clara 17 December, 1868 SS Donau 29 April, 1879 Autoleon 3 September Washington 26 October Paoli 20 December Very little money will be used. Active 23 July Philadelphia 4 January Edwina 30 June Europa 18 January 1845 Updates: 13 Janl 2021: Added 287,140 relative contact names. Bachus 12 September Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. North 14 September Friedrich Jacob 16 June Antilope 13 August Wills or testaments of relatives who stayed in Germany occasionally mention their relatives in foreign lands. Elizabeth Hall of Dighton 1 September [8] K. Thiess : Die Hamburg-Amerika Linie, page 34. See Germany Church Records for more information. The "Ordinance Concerning the Emigration Traveling on Domestic or Foreign Ships" of 1832 in Bremen was the first state law to protect emigrants. Louise 10 October Rajah 28 October Brarens 18 January Garonne 21 August Everhard 30 December Foreign trade grew -- Hamburgs hinterland demanded increased grain, meat and other foodstuffs, fertilizers and fodder and the raw materials of industry; it exported more and more potash, sugar and manufactured goods as Germany became established in the markets of the world. Includes index cards for Jewish emigrants. Saale was a German passenger ship owned by the North German Lloyd company of Bremen, and was built by the Fairfield shipbuilding company in Glasgow in 1886. Stern 9 July ", Hamburg Passenger Lists, Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934, Germans to America and the Hamburg Passenger Lists: Coordinated Schedules, The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934. What motive may influence the Hapag in a move of this sort is indicated by the rise and fall of the line from New York to the Levant (through to Constantinople and Odessa), maintained by the Hapag and the German Levant Line in common, 1901-04. General Washington 24 November, 1844 Elise 19 July Gustav 23 October Alfred 30 October Bark Freihandel 23 September Bark E.J. Stern 9 July Phoenix 10 September Bark Amaranth 20 November Pay special attention to how the name should have been pronounced and try variations on the pronunciation. Ship Itzstein & Welcker 6 January Diana 3 June The Lloyd and the Hamburg- Bremen Africa Line had formed a similar partnership. Luise 3 January Sju Brder 22 November Sophie 12 October Albert 12 August Cordova 24 November Bark Johanna 16 May These have been transcribed and put online here. Ship Monmouth 23 December, 1854 Citing Deutscher Ausland-Institut. Brarens 18 January Online Ship Passenger Lists and Records - German Roots SS Berlin 23 August Louise 21 May Semiramis 18 August Brig Charles Ferdinand 4 August Ellen Brooks 28 October Luntine 23 June Sarah Ann 6 October Maria Francisca 10 December In 1910, emigration had about regained its normal status. Friederich Jacob 9 December Virginia 26 June Caroline 23 July Grace Brown 17 July Until 1850, Bremen was a more popular port than Hamburg. Mercur 24 August Sir Isaac Newton 30 October In the following year, the Hapag made the Kosmos Line let the Hapag share its extremely profitable service to West America under an agreement whereby either company supplies a certain proportion of the total number of steamers dispatched per year. Bark Constitution 19 October SS Berlin 2 May Arab 8 September Passenger Lists By Ship - American Historical Society of Germans from Margaretha 1 September SS Main 17 August After WWII some of these lists and a card index were archived at the "Bundesarchiv Koblenz" as Bremen Shiplists. Diana 24 November Stephani 12 July Only a few Germans emigrated from other European ports. Other European emigrants sailed from Le Havre, France; Bremen and Hamburg, Germany; and Antwerp, in Belgium. . Steamer New York 13 May If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Germany, see Germany Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies. 121-24. Bark Neptune 6 November Before that a passport was a form of recommendation. SS Lahn 22 December. Paoli 9 August Aboard a Packet | National Museum of American History coasting vessels from North Germany,4 and even from Norway5 for transshipment to America. 1834 Brig Champion 28 July. SS Weser (1867) - Wikipedia Article by John Movius with David Dreyer. Marianne 20 July which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device Favorite 12 November Moreover, twice as many passengers departed from Bremen as from Germany's second busiest port for emigration, Hamburg. Isabella 28 August F H Adami 5 June Rainbow 26 August Brig Margaret 31 March The considerable traffic from New York to the Levant, transshipped at Hamburg, was threatened by the prospect in 1901 that a direct Russian or Italian line would be established. Virginia 26 June Brig Joh Dethard 15 December Isabella 28 August Ship Helene 21 August Timoleon 22 November Stephani 3 June Mary Phillips 9 September Stephani 3 June Sju Brder 22 November The index was created to facilitate access to the information in the Bremen passenger lists. In 1851 the Bremen Chamber of Commerce established the "Nachweisungsbureau fr Auswanderer" (Information Office for Emigrants), to which the ship captains had to deliver their lists. reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by Astracan 23 December Charlemagne 15 July Freight could not be profitably transported by steamers until the introduction of the compound engine, which greatly reduced the quantity of fuel to be carried; before this time so much of the carrying capacity of the ship had to be devoted to coal-bunkers that freight had to pay rates which could not compare with those offered by the sailing vessels.[6]. Margaretha 1 September Maria Francisca 10 December Rebecca 2 January The records are found in the State Archive Hamburg. Passports were both status symbol for uninterrupted travel and legal documentation for members belonging to fringe groups. [1][2], 1832 - lists of passengers begin Pioneer 2 September Favorite 12 November Edward 24 July Contact Us. Paoli 9 August Ajax 11 September Pauline 7 October Given the loss of Bremen departure lists, researches in search of embarkees from that port must fall back on arrival lists. Antilope 13 August Friedrich Jacob 16 June SS Baltimore 18 July 1845 Hours. For more information, see Germany Probate Records. Stephani 30 December Bark Clara 23 December, 1873 Probate Records of Relatives Who Stayed. The panic of 1873 set in and held up further advances. This policy gave Bremen on the entire continent a reputation that still endures and is worth to her thousands of emigrants yearly. Stephanie 26 July Marianne 20 September Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten (Bremen Ship Passengers 1904-1914). United States 12 November For additional information about image restrictions see Restrictions for Viewing Images in FamilySearch Historical Record Collections. World War II [ edit] Europa 23 June Charlotte 1 June Ship Andalusia 22 August Semiramis 18 August Our research into the RMS Laconia and SS Bergensfjord, the ships that brought two members of the Gjnvik family from Norway to the United States in the early 20th century, has helped us design our site for other genealogists. Sophie 19 August SS Baltimore 9 August reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by Stephani 30 December SS Strassburg 5 October. from 1920-1939. Ship Emigrant 3 September These usually focus on the emigrants from one town, principality, or state. Brig Neptune 14 October Ship O. Thijen 23 June 1834 Bodo Heyne: Passengers of the FERDINAND and the WALLACE. Europe 29 May Charlotte 20 September Online searchable database of passenger lists. Louise 21 May As many as one-fifth of the passengers did not survive the crossing to America. Stephanie 26 July So the Hapag and the German Levant Line instituted the direct connection themselves and continued it for three years. Created & Maintained by the ISTGImmigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC The New Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild logo was designed by Patty MacFarlane. Brunswick 17 October, 1836 Favorite 18 June By 1914, more than one million Eastern European Jews had emigrated to the United States through the port of Hamburg. Neptune 4 August Diana 5 August Bark Ceder 20 May Isabella 28 August PDF The Transportation of Immigrants and - Jstor N W Stevens 23 October But, as we have seen, the North Atlantic trade was preeminently a passenger trade. Lucilla 3rd Quarter Pauline 9 October Condor 9 August The initial letters of the official name spell the word Hapag and it is as Hapag that the line is popularly known. Charlotte 1 June Diana 24 November Luise 3 January Bremen Passenger Lists - Public-Juling Galliott Flora 21 May The port of Bremen, Germany was a major point of embarkation for emigrations during the 19th and 20th centuries. Westphalia 31 December SS Berlin 2 May Details for immigrant ship arrivals at the Port of Galveston, Texas between the years 1865 and 1896. Ship Jason 7 December, 1853 In 1907 they entered into a community of interest (Interessengemeinschaft) with the Hapag and Woermann. Ship Asia 3 November Diana 21 November Elizabeth Hall of Dighton 1 September Friedrich Jacob 16 June SS Baltimore 30 January Leo 31 August It was a war that lasted three years. Bark Franziska 6 December, 1850 Bremen 21 November Grace Brown 17 July Ship Olbers 8 November Ship Elise 19 May Agnes 29 December Diana 21 November Luntine 23 June Diana 24 November Delivered to ship breakers for scrapping in April 1961. Bremen 14 September Goethe 7 July Isabella 28 August Bark Leocadia 23 May