You might try LDS Archives.com The Morman Library has data from a number of Duchy's and Kreis's. You can access them through the local Genealogy Library in the Mormon Church. You don't have to be a Morman to use them. They also have a Genealogy Course that is well worth the cost. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Johnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:03 AM Subject: [G-P-L] Bremen passenger >I am a newbie to this list, searching for information on Bremen to New York >passenger Gottfried SCHROTH, age 33 of Hesse, Darmstadt; arrival date >07/14/1851; declaration date 05/27/1854. This information is from >Citizenship Record Abstracts 1837-1916, U. Cincinnati, Ohio. His >Declaration of Intention states that he emigrated from Bremen 7 June, 1851 >and arrived at New York 14 July, 1851. How can I further trace this man in >Germany? I have tried varied sources in US with no luck. I wrote to Hesse >Staatsarchiv in Darmstadt; the reply was that he was not registered in >their emmigrant cards, and that the family name is very common there. They >need the exact place of origin to pull out further means of searching. How >can I find him there? Any ideas from the list using this meager >information that I have? > Can anyone help? > > Ann in NC > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >