The trouble with so many of these sites is that their records start much too late for my ancestors leaving Germany. Mine came in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Dorothy C. White dotwhite@comcast.net 804.795.4296 > -----Original Message----- > From: Bishlark@aol.com [mailto:Bishlark@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 10:16 PM > To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BAVARIA] Re: [G-P-L] OTTO family from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha > > > In a message dated 8/7/2005 8:23:18 PM Central Standard Time, > oakwoodjoe@earthlink.net writes: > > Where do I find this Bremen web site you refer to? I thought > all Bremen > Records were destroyed in WWII. > > Joe > > _http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/Examples.58.0.html_ > (http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/Examples.58.0.html) > > > > > > Some Bremen records were destroyed in WWII but most of the > records were > destroyed after a few years because the storage area was too > small so every so > often they would purge the records. Somebody help us please. > That is the > impression / information that I have. > > Bremen is reproducing records using the information that came > to America in > the ship manifests. > > CLBischoff > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIA.html > to unsubscribe > >