Ancestry is available at all LDS FAmily History Centers and is free -- Ancestry is expensive if there is an alternative way to acces it. Judie > We had 5 family members that immigrated from the Ukraine and Lithuania, > all separately. Family lore insisted they left from Bremen, but I found > them all in the Hamburg lists. Be open to looking at all ports and not > focusing only on family stories. > > Susan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:58 AM, "Ursula B Adamson" <ubatrans@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> Hello Walter, >> >> There is no website per se but rather you need to subscribe to >> Ancestry.com. >> >> FYI the Hamburg Passenger Lists are DEPARTURE records - the same >> records, >> which are the ARRIVAL records of the same ships have been indexed at >> Ancestry. >> Therefore, if you haven't found your ancestor among the ARRIVALS in NY >> or >> Baltimore, chances are they departed from and arrived at a different >> port. >> Having said that, if you know the year in which your ancestors left >> Hamburg, >> then there are certain steps you must take to locate the passenger ship >> list. >> >> Before I waist time explaining how to get there, please tell me from >> what >> German state your ancestor came from. >> Often family researchers don't realize that emigrants from the southern >> German states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria or Switzerland seldom >> traveled to Hamburg to sail to America. For those, the French and >> Belgium >> ports were much closer. >> I found that emigrants from Brandenburg and Mecklenburg generally >> departed >> from Hamburg, while those from all the other northern states departed >> from >> Bremen. >> >> So, to speed things up, tell me the year of emigration and the home >> state of >> your ancestors and then we'll take it from there. >> >> Ursula >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of >> Renze, >> Walter >> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:47 AM >> To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [G-P-L] GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30 >> >> Good Day John, Linda, >> >> Could you possibly direct me to a website where I can search through the >> Hamburg Passenger Lists? >> >> Regards, >> >> Walter RENZE >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of >> germany-passenger-lists-request@rootsweb.com >> Sent: 10 March 2011 06:13 >> To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com >> Subject: GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30 >> >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: EXT :Re: GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS Digest, Vol 6, Issue >> 28 (Galle, John L (AMSEC)) >> 2. Re: EXT :Re: GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS Digest, Vol 6, Issue >> 28 (Ursula B Adamson) >> 3. Re: Carl Bollmann from Pommerania (Ursula B Adamson) >> 4. Re: EXT :Re: BOLLMAN(N) Researcher (Galle, John L (AMSEC)) >> >> >> For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: >> http://www.germanyroots.com >> >> Please visit and participate in our new forum >> http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: > http://www.germanyroots.com > > Please visit and participate in our new forum > http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Oh yes, I remember now that at the Rootstech Conference someone said that Ancestry will again be free to access at the LDS family history centers. Best check with your local center to see if that's in fact the case. >Ancestry is available at all LDS FAmily History Centers and is free -- Ancestry is expensive if there is an alternative way to acces it.< NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.