Genealogical Research

General information on how to trace your German ancestors

• Tracing German Ancestors
  Information provided by the German Embassy and the German Consulate in the United States
  
• Genealogy.net
  Project of the Verein fuer Computergenealogie. This association provides information on regional resources, societies, clubs, databases of genealogy societies, emigration information, passenger ship lists, sample letters to churches, offices, archives, organizations and much more.
  
• FamilySearch.org
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints offers an Internet Geneaology Service. You can search for your ancestors in their vast record collections, get step-by-step research guidance on searching for ancestors, view maps, forms, guides, and other research helps. They hold microfilms of many German materials such as parish registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths in Salt Lake City.

Emigration and Immigration lists

Emigration/immigration lists and passenger lists provide information on emigrants from all over Germany

• Hamburg Link to your roots
  The Hamburg Emigration Lists are a data bank which includes the personal data of 5 million people who emigrated via Hamburg from 1850 to 1934. The Hamburg emigration lists are now available starting with the years 1890-1893. This data bank will grow, on a regular basis, year by year.
  
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
  Provides passenger lists of people emigrated via Bremen or Bremerhaven.
  
• American Family Immigration History Center
  The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. has developed an exciting family genealogy facility. Housed in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and accessible via the Internet, the American Family Immigration History CenterTM uses state-of-the-art interactive computer technology to bring the immigration records on ancestors who came to the United States between 1892 and 1924.