German Genealogy Study Group

5. Immigration, Ships and Naturalization

Updated 10 Feb 1999

Review of Basic Naturalization Documents

A succinct description of U.S. naturalization documents within time frames.

Germans To America

This is a site reviewing the series of books "Germans to America", which covers ship lists from Jan 1850-Nov 1888 in 56 volumes. They will eventually cover thru 1893.

Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals on Microfilm

Passengers and Immigrants To America-Alabama through New York

A Guide to Searching for Your Immigrant Ancestors in the Clayton Library

Passengers and Immigrants To America-North Carolina through Wisconsin

A Guide to Searching for Your Immigrant Ancestors in the Clayton Library

G-Series German American and H-Series Emigration

Index to monographs of German to American passenger lists

Genealogy Resources on the Internet-UofMich

Information about researching passenger lists, ships, ship museums

Ship list for Germans from Russia

First go to this site and note the number you want, then and go here: passengers Find your ancestor and learn what ship he came over in,how old they were, what year he came, what port he came through, and learn what reference was used to compile this information.

German Genealogy Book Reviews-Immigration

Review of two popular immigration series on passenger lists.

Emigration from Germany to America

Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources

Sources, German Emigration to America

German and American Sources for German Emigration to America

Passenger Lists and Immigration-Related Materials.

Passengers and Immigrants to America...Information about The Ships, All of the Ports, references to individual states.

Immigrant Ship Transcriber Guild

Passenger list data from many ports and dates. Searchable by surname, ports of departure/arrival in US, ship name, or year.

Hamburg Passenger Lists

Lists of passengers on all vessels sailing 1850-1934. Direct and indirect lists, Contemporary and Modern Indexes

The Olive Tree Genealogy: Palatine Passenger Lists 1600's

The Olive Tree Genealogy: Palatine Passenger Lists 1700's

INDEX TO PASSENGER LISTS

Including Palatine to PA

FTM "how to" Guide

Locating Passinger lists, part of the genealogy "how to" guide.

Liam McFaul Webpage

Though a mostly Irish page it has some passenger lists of ships to Quebec & Halifax circa 1906. Most of the names are German and many had US destinations.

New York Public Library

Print reference Germans to America: lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports. 1850-

Passenger Ship History Service

provides genealogists with the history and a photograph of a specific passenger ship-small fee.

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