Cathy, I know my husband has been viewing ships lists on line and I believe it was via ProQuest. When he comes in I will ask him how he does that. Have you asked your research librarian what all is available at ProQuest and if their subscription allows access to all? Another option may be to view the lists via Ancestry.com at your local LDS FHC. They subscribe to Ancestry and you would have free access there. It may be more user friendly if you go there via the Steve Morse website. However my husband says that using Ancestry even under a paid subscription is very frustrating because they always have "subscribe now" popups before you can access the pages you want. Be sure you get all the subscriber data you need from the FHC volunteer -- the user login and passwprd that may stop all that nonsense. The German Emigration museum in Bremerhaven is also putting ships departure passenger lists into a database. They have people there to do requested lookups. I don't know if they will email a copy of the documents they find. The first URL below indicates a second emigration museum should open at Hamburg in 2007. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,369776,00.html http://www.historisches-museum-bremerhaven.de/index.php?id=56 http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/ As a reminder, not all emigrants sailed from Bremerhaven. Other ports included Amsterdam / Rotterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre and some sourthern ports like Trieste. Which port someone used depended on a number of factors, the most important being whether he was a legal immigrant. Illegals usually chose to leave from France or Belgium. Some illegals were able to travel with a passport issued to an older woman who wanted a man to travel with her. She would apply for a passport presenting the man as her son or other close relative and the county agent would not bother to confirm this was true (maybe he was bribed or owed the family a favor, maybe he was too lazy to ask for proof or maybe the man had a forged birth record). The passport would be one document with the names of everyone in the "party" listed. So a woman would have a son with her when she set sail but when she landed the son disappeared because he went through US immigration under his own name with his real birth record or whatever was required. Thus US arrival documents for Ellis Island may show and arrival for which there was no apparent departure. I understand the same thing happened with immigrants to Australia -- men travelling with a woman who disappeared upon landing. Karen