Immigration and Emigration Sources

• Bremen departure site passenger lists
• Auswanderung sites
  • German Genealogy Group. A database of people leaving Germany. 
  • St. Louis County (Missouri) Library, History & Genealogy Department: Marxkors’ Index of Emigrants from Westphalia & Lower Saxony. 
• GermanRoots: Links to multiple data sites for German Emigration lists, records, and indexes.  This site includes extensive resources in Germany and the US such as city directories, newspapers, land records, and military service records.

• Germans to America Series
• Shtetl Finder

• Baden-Württemberg, Neuhausen Ob Eck
• Brunswick 
• Lower Saxony / Cuxhaven 
• Walter Tenfelde’s book of emigrants
• Rheingau  
• Schleswig-Holstein: Rootdigger
• Southwest Germany (Südwestdeutschland)
• Westphalia / Lippe: Emigration Lippe-USA 
• Westphalia / Rheine 

1. Castle Garden.  11 million records of people who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820-1892. 
2. Ellis Island Foundation 
3. GenWeb's US site
4. Jewishgen has information on Jewish immigration but is not limited to that topic.  There is an Ellis Island Records search tab. 
5. Steve Morse has a wonderful site with US and Canadian immigration information that will help with your search, includes census information and calendar conversions.  
6. Baltimore site
7. National Archives
8. Library of Congress
9. Ancestry
10. Family Search’s wiki for Locating Place of Origin