Brunswick (Braunschweig) Emigration and Immigration

For a comprehensive understanding of emigration and immigration records, study the article Germany Emigration and Immigration.

Brunswick (Braunschweig) Websites

 * Emigration lists of the former Duchy of Braunschweig,1846-1871, index
 * Emigration lists from Berel, Braunschweig

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * Germans_to_America
 * USGenWeb State and country sites often include links to indexed vital records, church information, naturalization records, county histories, and other resources.
 * RootsWeb
 * German search engine
 * Metasearch Engine - Use keywords Auswanderer, Auswanderung, emigration,immigration” to find little-known lists of emigrants
 * Palmer list of merchant vessels, descriptions and pictures of European sailing vessels, including many earlier emigrant ships
 * Forschungsstelle deutscher Auswanderer in die USA, discussion of problems with Germans to America, links to transcribed passenger lists, offers research services.
 * German Emigrant Data Base,covers 1820-1939, main source: New York passenger lists beginning in 1820, supplemented by material found in Germany, ($)
 * Ancestors on Board: A Journey of Discovery
 * Americana in German Archives

U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes

 * Ellis Island Records - New York arrivals 1892-1924, limited search functionality, includes images
 * CastleGarden – passenger arrivals in New York 1820-1913, currently not linked to images
 * Improved Search Masks for the Ellis Island website and Castle Garden allows searches by various fields, with or without a complete name
 * Ancestry.comincludes an ever-increasing number of passenger list indexes and linked imagees, ($).
 * Emigrants coming through Canada
 * Routes to the Roots has good links to emigrant data bases arranged by geographical area
 * Germany Roots, data base of over 230,000 emigrants
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild
 * Galveston Immigration Lists
 * Bremen passenger lists, 1920-1939
 * French Lines
 * Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung Emigrants from noble families