Oldenburg Emigration and Immigration

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Online Databases

 * Emigrants from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
 * Auswanderung aus dem alten Amt Wildeshausen
 * Emigrants from the former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (now Niedersachsen), Germany, mainly to the United States, 1830-1849
 * Names of emigrants as detected in the records of the city archive of Rahden (see list at the bottom of the page).
 * Regional Emigration Databases includes Emigration from the Former County of Delmenhorst 1830-1930, County of Cuxhaven 1830-1930, Counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta 1830-about 1875, and Bad Laer 19th Century
 * Bremen passenger list 1920 and onward

Germany Nationwide Records Websites

 * German Emigrant Data Base,covers 1820-1939, main source: New York passenger lists beginning in 1820, supplemented by material found in Germany, ($)

U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes

 * The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934
 * Bremen passenger lists, 1920-1939
 * French Lines
 * Ellis Island Records - New York arrivals 1892-1924, limited search functionality, includes images
 * The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. – passenger arrivals in New York 1820-1913, currently not linked to images
 * One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse for the Ellis Island website and Castle Garden allows searches by various fields, with or without a complete name
 * coming through Canada
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild