Schooner S. A. Reed 2 April Ship L'Esperance 10 January SS City of Havana 4 October Ship Edward Downes 28 November Webster 17 April Wikimedia Commons has media related to Passenger ships of Germany. . Caledonia 13 May Black Warrior 31 July Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel. Brig Gem 23 March SS Milly & Rachel 18 November Their ventilated doors opened directly into the cabin or saloon, a common area for eating and socializing. Most of the lists include the last place of residence and often the place of birth as well. https://www.thoughtco.com/germans-to-america-1421984 (accessed May 2, 2023). SS City of New York 1 April Princess Charlotte 4 December Instructions. Bark Globe 28 April SS City of New York 10 February Steamer Alps 26 July The person was listed on another index. Africaine 14 November Brig Acadian 5 September SS Somerset 15 April Ship Home 10 December Br Ship Riverdale 12 November When these pages were filled, the rest of the names beginning with that letter were continued on the unused pages under another letter. Ship Stephen Whitney 6 April Ship Sea King 12 June SS Batavia 13 January SS Walla Walla 6 June You can also search the same index on a home computer if you click here, but you will be asked to subscribe to see the search results list. The records of Europeans who emigrated through other ports, such as Bremen, LeHavre, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp, have either been destroyed or are not available for research at the FamilySearch Library. SS Columbus 1 February Finding New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957 SS Schiedam 15 April SS City of Berlin 29 April Schooner Sisters 24 January Parthia 27 January Also, the passenger lists, Fifteen-Year Direct Index, and handwritten indexes are on 486 rolls of microfilm at the FamilySearch Library, and can be accessed at various FamilySearch Centers and the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. Ship Harold 24 October Schooner Lucy Ames 29 March SS Helvetia 8 April RMS Abyssinia 1 May Note: Indexes are not necessary for the years 1850-1854 because the records are already sorted by first letter of last name. SS Peru 2 May In the case that the record you are looking for cannot be found by searching, you may want to begin by browsing the companion database, Hamburg Passenger Lists, Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934. German passenger liner Frisia Built at Greenock, Scotland, 1872 Passenger capacity as built: 90 first class, 130 second, 600 third & steerage Crew: 125 Immigrant Ship Frisia In 1871, Hamburg-America Line steamers alone carried 4,200 cabin passengers and 24,500 steerage passengers into New York. SS Maer 27 January When you find a person in an index, use the information in the index to find the person in the actual passenger list. This document uses traditional English weights and measures. Zurich 1 May Schooner Flora 4 January Schooner Victoria 7 May Ship Octavia 31 March SS Vega 29 December, 1893 The index cards provide the emigrants name, status or occupation, age, names of persons traveling in the same party, and place of origin. SS Bothnia 27 June SS Neptune 13 December Brig Ransom 11 February Some records for tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth. Ship Burgandy 20 April, 1840 Amana 23 September, 1887 SS England 30 April Ship Thornton 13 May Barque Natchez 4th Quarter, 1848 Brig L. F. Munson 4 April Use Form NATF 81or order online to obtain copies of inbound federal passenger arrival manifests for ships and airplanes, . Ship Mary Catharine 17 March Adelaide Metcalf 28 March SS Assyria 25 September Beginning in 1891, "Germans to America" only includes arrivals to the port of New York. SS Prometheus 21 June Ship Importer 21 February To search this partial index for free at the FamilySearch Library on Ancestry.com click here. Wiki article about the principles, search strategies, and record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown. SS Hibernian 3 June SS Nevada 12 April Ship Colossus 8 August Brig Juliana 25 January SS Australia 3 February If you have ancestors who emigrated from these areas, the Hamburg passenger lists could provide important genealogical information about them, including their hometowns. SS Herder 6 March Brig Two Marys 12 February Brig E. Miller 1 April of oatmeal, 2 1/2 lbs. SS Germanic 1 December Brig Hibernia 13 March Also, make a printout or photocopy of the passenger list pages showing your ancestor and other family members. SS Nancy 21 July Barque Gilbert Henderson 20 December Brig Emerald 8 July Passenger lists 1851 - FHL Microfilm Roll #906709 Item 7 - covers April & May 1851 only - all ships listed on this microfilm roll are also included in the NARA microfilm publication listed above (Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans 1820-1902) except these two: Schooner Union (arrived 20 April 1851 from San Juan de Nicaragua) and SS Alexandria 10 November Star of Empire 14 August Bark Sarah 22 December, 1896 The individual books in the "Germans to America" seriesare fairly pricey, so the best research option is to either find a library with the series (most major genealogical libraries will have it), or locate a database version. SS Adriatic 17 February John Wells 11 February SS Parthia 28 July Ship Crescent 29 January SS Caledonia 19 January which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device SS Etruria 17 December Ship Oswego 9 September, 1846 Re: I would like to find information on my parent’s immigration here to the US. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration For passenger lists from all ports, arriving in New York 1892-1924 visit Ellis Island "Germans to America" 1850-1897 (books, online pay for view database at genealogy.com & CD-Roms) Immigration Records: German & Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s (CD #267) Family Tree Maker For any link problems please contact ISTG Production Coordinator This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. SS Scythia 26 March Volumes 159 of "Germans to America" (through 1890) include arrivals to the major U.S. ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and New Orleans. Many of these items may be used to search the index for the years 1850-1934, using the search template above. Bark Johanna Elise 10 June SS Donau 8 January These microfilms can be accessed at various FamilySearch Centers, and at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. SS State of Pennsylvania 3 January John Bell 14 May 1891-1954 - Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included: name, age, sex, nationality, occupation, marital status, last residence, final destination in the U.S., whether they had been to the U.S. before (and if so, when, where and how long), Included in this database are book indexes to passengers arriving by ship in Boston, Massachusetts between 1899 and 1940. Students will analyze a Table of German Passenger ships that landed in Philadelphia from 1683 to 1775. Ship Emerald 30 April London Packet 15 March Schooner Patriot 4 September, 1826 When you find the emigrant in the index, note the number following the name. These films will be found on the FS Library International floor. Extensive indexes make these records easier to use than most other passenger lists and emigration records. Brig Alexandra 30 March Am^n St^r City of Atlanta 20 December The person was listed on another index page because the first page was full. Ship Elias Burger 25 February The Hamburg passenger lists contain the names of millions of Europeans who departed Europe from Hamburg, Germany between 1850 and 1934 (except 19151919). Ship James Grant 10 December Notice the type of information provided within these entries. SS St. Laurent 14 May Ship Pharsalia 11 November, 1847 The database version created by the Center for Immigration Studies at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (the same group that created the published versions) was originally published on CD and is now available for free online from the National Archives and FamilySearch. Ship New World 9 June Unskilled German workers could not easily afford such a voyage, providing perspective on why German immigration to the United States was positively self-selected. SS Carondelet 15 October Also at MyHeritage, index ($) 1846-1851 Boston Passenger Lists 1846-1851, ($), index When you find an ancestor make a note on your research log showing exactly where you found them. SS Australia 2 April RMS Celtic 20 January Schooner Tigress 12 May Prins Maurits 29 December Brig Clorinda 2 June SS Zeeland 10 April SS Philadelphia 30 April Internet Access. Ship St. Martin 10 February Brig Planter 10 December Ship Edmond 14 June SS Taormina 28 December SS T. Trowbridge 6 August Ship Chariot 10 August SS Wieland 4 October Br. Bark Fredonia 29 August, 1867 Rappahonock 22 June Schooner Frank Howard 22 March Kimberly Powell is a professional genealogist and the author of The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy. SS Cornwall 1 April SS Lessing 6 February Brig Armagh 23 March https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Passenger_ships_of_Germany&oldid=544172258, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 14 March 2013, at 19:32. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use). SS Spain 22 April Information contained in the index includes given name, surname, age, gender, arrival date, port of arrival, port of departure and ship name. Irish Passenger Lists Research Guide Tips for finding U.S. ship passenger records for Irish immigrants. If the emigrant departed in 1854, search the Klber 2 index, or the alphabetical passenger lists themselves for that year. SS Utopia 21 January She was completed for Viking Expeditions in December 2021 and has a capacity for 378 passengers in 189 staterooms. SS Canada 21 January SS City of Para 24 December The "Germans to America" Series The first 9 volumes of the "Germans to America" series indexed only passenger lists of ships that contained at least 80% German passengers. Use the following table to determine the Index of Changed Microfilm numbers at the FamilySearch Library. SS Bolivia 15 April From 1854-1910, separate lists were maintained for direct passengers and indirect passengers. The Viking Octantis gets into the list as she is the largest or one of the largest purpose-built expedition ships (intended for the Arctic and Antarctic regions). This page has been viewed 157,860 times (0 via redirect). Powell, Kimberly. Schooner Boston 11 May Bark Jason 17 October, 1849 They brought their own bedding. Davis 26 February Hired armed lugger Alert. SS Caledonia 23 January Determine the indexes to use from the following table. Vittoria Rubruveer 5 April, 1876 Among these were approximately 1.2 million people from Russia, Austria-Hungary, Romania, and other countries of southeastern Europe. Ship Gov. Richmond 10 May Schooner John Rose 1 April SS Pereire 10 April It lists the indexes available for various emigration years. Information about using the Pennsylvania German Pioneers books (now available online) to find passenger lists of German immigrants who landed at Philadelphia from 1727-1808. Howe 30 March The reason for emigration was hunger. SS Celtic 22 December SS Canada 25 April Ship St. Denis 22 July, 1851 SS W. A. Scholten 30 July, 1888 Wm. Most crossed in the steerage area, below decks. SS Egypt 22 December SS State of Virginia 10 April Sloop Boston Packet 11 August Ports of Entry and their Available Passenger Lists, Tips for Determining Your Ancestor's Port of Arrival in the US, Ancestry's Immigration Records Collection, FamilySearch's Migration and Naturalization Records Collection. Microfilm Access. Then you can return to this database and browse to the images by selecting the year of departure, then selecting the particular volume (Band) that covers the date range when your ancestor sailed, then browsing to the image that matches the departure date or page number found in the handwritten index. ThoughtCo. Brig Acadian 22 April Step 3: Obtain the Desired Passenger List, Hamburg Passenger Lists, Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934, Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg - Emigration and Immigration, FS Library International Ref Desk Book 973 W22m, Index of Changed Microfilm numbers at the FamilySearch Library, Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 Resource Guide, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Hamburg_Passenger_Lists&oldid=5257795, 70th ship to leave port and departure date of the ship (, The page this information is found on the actual passenger lists (. These microfilms can be accessed at various FamilySearch centers and at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. SS Trave 17 December For example, pages 1086, 1087, and 1088 might appear as 1086, 87, 88. For a detailed guide about finding New Orleans passenger lists see: Bridgeport, New Haven, and New London, Connecticut 1929-1959, Portland, Maine 1893-1943 (plus 1 list from 1891), BOOK: Swedish Passenger Arrivals in the United States 1820-1850 by Nils William Olsson and Erik Wikn, published by Schmidts Boktryckeri AB, 1995; indexed. SS Saratoga 16 November Brig Keying 12 September Social Science History seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal's interdisciplinary readership of historians, sociologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and geographers. "Indirect passengers" were those who were registered on one ship in Hamburg, but transferred to another ship before reaching their final destination. This microfilm can be accessed at various FamilySearch centers and at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake city. Java 24 April Schooner Meridan 11 May SS State of Nevada 24 February SS City of Alexandria 31 December H. Prescott 16 March This index is complete for the years it covers. Brig Weser 29 December, 1837 reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by SS Rhein 7 December which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. If you cannot find a person in the index to the direct lists, follow the steps outlined here to search the index to the Indirect Lists. SS W.A. NOTE: Each letter of the alphabet was allotted only a certain number of pages. For the FamilySearch Catalog listing of Indirect Passenger List microfilm numbers click here. Request Permissions. SS Ailsa 17 March Wealthy travelers took advantage of packets reliable sailings to study, tour, or transact business abroad. Lists of German Passengers Arriving at U.S. Brig Evanista 5 July SS Wyoming 2 April Schooner Villager 14 May SS Heiedoo 2 April Schooner Charlie Bell 3 April Admiral 6 December, 1853 SS Greece 18 November Ship St. Nicolas 29 August Reform must be made, he wrote, to better the condition of the poorer classes of emigrants.. While most of the Bremen, Germany passenger departure records were destroyed, a few from 1920-1939 have survived. ER Sawyer 29 August, 1856 The book call number is FS Library INTL Ref book 943.515/H1 W39h 1872. SS Carondelet 19 June In 1850, there was a noticeable uptick in the number of advertisements SS Wieland 27 March 1820-1963 Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963 ($) 1890-1930 Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Steamship Arrivals, 1890-1930, ($), index 1891-1943 Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943 Index and images. Although food was provided, passengers had to cook it themselves. At the FamilySearch Librarysearch for the freeimages of this complete but hard-to-read index on Ancestry.com click here. Bark (Barque) Creole 18 July This database contains passenger lists of ships that departed from the port of Hamburg, Germany from 1850-1934 (with a gap from 1915-1919 due to World War I). Ship Admiral 3 December Brig Winthrop 26 September SS Bell 11 December If your ancestor's name does not appear on the numbered page, search the unnumbered page(s) immediately following it. Portland 12 January Tap or click on a vessel to view images. SS Abyssinia 18 September It presently covers therecords of over 4 million passengers duringthe period January 1850 through Jun 1897. Brig Wm. Bark Paulina 29 April This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Are you researching German immigrants to America during the 19th century? Brig Hancock 20 February SS Saratoga 9 April Ship Susquehanna 19 August Bark Johanna 16 May For details and film numbers, use the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under: Ships arriving in America from Hamburg 1850 to 1934. On rough crossings, steerage passengers often had little time in the fresh air on the upper deck. Nearly one-third of Germans, and 90 percent of the people who emigrated from eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary, Romania) during this time are included on these lists. biscuit, 1 lb. SS Surrey 19 February (2020, August 27). The journal invites articles that blend empirical research with theoretical work, undertake comparisons across time and space, or contribute to the development of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The vast majority of passengers, usually immigrants, bought bunks in steerage, also called the tween deck for its position between the cabins and the hold. Deutsch Below you will find a series of passenger lists for ships that left Hamburgduring the second half of the 19th Century and early 20th Century to bring Germans to South Africaand to other Direct trips between Hamburg and South Africa were relatively rare in the early years. SS Denmark 30 January Brig Peruvian 19 February SS Britannia 15 December Andrew Foster 8 December, 1852 SS State of Indiana 17 December Ship Europa 5 June SS H. Trowbridge 26 July Italian Bark Adamo 9 June SS Alameda 8 June SS Claribel 8 April Ship Robert Morris 2 February Liverpool Packet 29 August By 1840, however, it was clear that the last glorious days of the sailing ship were at hand. Ship Benjamin Morgan 10 April Bark Danl. Bark Ovanda 5 May London 11 April Brig William 13 February SS Switzerland 14 January SS City of Berlin 1 December Ship Manhattan 20 March SS Bothnia 9 April SS Saratoga 26 February Bark Nicasque 2 April Steamer Crescent City 28 March Brig Sarah 25 July Re: I'm looking for incoming 1904 passenger lists for SS Switzerland, Find answers to your research questions at, How to File a FOIA Request for Archival Records. To browse this image set, select from the options below. SS Rhinardda 16 April SS California 21 January Brig James Coulter 26 January The records also include about 750,000 Jewish immigrants from Russia, who sailed at this time from Hamburg to the United States. SS Rhenania 7 November Barque Lulan 18 September SS Egypt 2 October Schooner Boston 5 February SS Bothnia 2 April This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:42. Anglo American 3 April SS Abyssinia 13 March Schooner China 5 September SS Oceanic 17 May If you know the name of the ship on which your ancestor arrived in the United States from Hamburg and the date that ship arrived, Roger P. Minert's, Kathryn Boeckel's, and Caren Winter's Germans to America and the Hamburg Passenger Lists: Coordinated Schedules (FS Library International Ref Desk Book 973 W22m) can help you quickly access the Hamburg Passenger Lists microfilm departure record for your ancestor. If you already know the departure date you can browse directly to it from here. SS State of Pennsylvania 29 September Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1820-1846 (NARA & FHL Microfilm Numbers), New York Passenger Lists Online Index and Images 1820-1957, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891, index and images, Italians to America 1880-1904 & 1855-1900, Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests 1820-1880, Registers of Vessels Arriving at the Port of New York 1789-1919, Miscellaneous Sources: Armenian Immigrants, Czech Immigrants, Greek Immigrant Passengers, Luxembourg Immigrants, Swedish Immigrants to New York, Ellis Island Online Database 1892-1924 (research tips), Ellis Island Database 1892-1924 - tips and information, Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, June 16, 1897-June 20, 1902 (NARA & FHL Microfilm Numbers), Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, July 1, 1902-December 31, 1943 (NARA & FHL Microfilm Numbers). SS Sicilia 22 July. SS Marshall Bennett 28 April SS Neckar (retranscribed, now in Volume 5) 5 January Ship Opawa to Lyttelton 7 December It also includes the year of emigration and the page number where the entry will be found. SS Italy 24 February These passengers may have had stopovers in other ports on their way to their final destination, but they remained on the same ship. Santiago de Cuba 14 February Steamer Borussia 19 September SS Olinda 14 September, 1892 SS Erin 16 September Beauregard, International Trade of Enslaved People Outlawed, Helpful Online Resources for learning German, Why Some Baltimore Passenger Lists are Missing and How to Find Them, Certificate in Genealogical Research, Boston University. Schooner Jos. The 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 U.S. censuses are a good place to begin searching for these kinds of information. Ship Rome 3 June Direct passengers were those who sailed on the same ship from Hamburg to their port of destination. Figure 4 below is a sample of an entry from the handwritten index. SS Wisconsin 12 March Halifax 9 January Brig Quebec 22 March Travelers with enough money purchased cabin passage and slept in private or semiprivate rooms. Ship Algonquin 10 May SS Umatilla 26 June, 1894 To make the most of these records it will be helpful to have an idea of where the person was coming from and when they arrived.