The "Wuerttemberg Emigration Index" is a 7-volume set showing thousands of German and Prussian immigrants to the United States in Wuerttemberg, Germany who applied to emigrate from the late eighteenth century to 1900. The information supplied on each person includes: name, date and place of birth, residence at time of application and application date, and microfilm number. Emigrants who left without permission aren't listed at their time of emigration. Yet many of these emigrants, later in life, after having arrived in the land of their destination, sent word back to the Wuerttemberg state and town officials renouncing their citizenship rights. Such repudiation is also documented in the Wuerttemberg emigration records. All names listed are spelled in the most common German way, so you need to be watchful of spelling changes. A man's name, "John" in America can be shown as "Johann" or even "Hans." Place names are all spelled as they will be listed in a German gazetteer or located on a German map. When a family or husband and wife applied jointly, the entry would be as follows: Weidmann, Hans Peter & W or Becker, Alois & W, respectively. The wife would be listed separately by her maiden name in alphabetical order. In cases of a widow with children or a single woman with an illegitimate child, the listing will appear as follows: Widmann, Heinrike & C. A widow also may be listed as Widmann, Heinrike & F. The date of application for emigration should not be assumed to be the date of emigration. In several cases, emigration was not granted until some time later, or the emigrant had already left secretly before that date. Source: Schenk, Trudy and Ruth Froelke. "Wuerttemberg Emigration Index - Vol. 5, Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1986- . What Do I Do Now? All data in the "Wuerttemberg Emigration Index" has been extracted from the original Wuerttemberg emigration records filmed at Ludwigsburg and available on microfilm at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City or through its branch LDS family history centers. Although all of the records were handwritten by German speaking people, the spelling of names varies from one document to the other. In cases where applicants used their own signature, that spelling was used. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Page 23: Name: Bower, Anna Maria (wife) Birth Date: 1815 Birth Place: Steinbach District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783 Name: Bower, Georg Matthaeus Aug. Birth Date: 27 Jan 1848 Birth Place: Laufen District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783 Name: Bower, Jacob & F Birth Date: 22 Jan 1807 Birth Place: Laufen District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783 Name: Bower, Johann Georg Birth Date: 12 Feb 1853 Birth Place: Laufen District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783 Name: Bower, Johann Georg A. Julius Birth Date: 25 Jan 1844 Birth Place: Stuttgart District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783 Name: Bower, Marie Catharine Birth Date: 17 Oct 1846 Birth Place: Laufen District: Gaildorf Application Date: Feb 1854 Destination: North America Number: 577783