Good morning folks, Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:59 PM > Karl, > As you probably already know the Bremen files were destroyed during > W.W. II. <brotherjohn snip> > Roger Rhoads > Just a wee bit of clarification about Bremen embarcation passenger lists. "The Bremen passenger lists of 1832-1872 were destroyed in 1875 by governmental decree owing to want of storage space. Thereafter only the current and two previous years were kept, until the destruction ceased in 1907. The lists of 1906-1931 were placed in the Statistisches Landesamt Bremen, which was bombed on 6 October 1944, resulting in the destruction of the remaining Bremen lists. An incomplete name index of the lists for 1904- 1914 is held at the Bundesarchiv Koblenz, with microfilms available via your local LDS FHC. The Bremen Handelskammer archives has an apparently complete duplicate of the lists for 1922-1939." can be found at URL http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/faqs/sgg.html#contents for now, A. John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net 963 McIver Rd Great Falls, MT 59404

John Thanks for your responce, but since my grandparents arrived in the US in 1889, it looks like these sources won't be of much help. Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. John Birkholz" <brotherjohn@imt.net> To: <LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:56 AM Subject: [LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L] Re: Struck ancestors > Good morning folks, > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:59 PM > > > Karl, > > As you probably already know the Bremen files were destroyed during > > W.W. II. > <brotherjohn snip> > > Roger Rhoads > > > Just a wee bit of clarification about Bremen embarcation passenger lists. > > "The Bremen passenger lists of 1832-1872 were destroyed in 1875 by > governmental decree owing to want of storage space. Thereafter only the > current and two previous years were kept, until the destruction ceased in > 1907. The lists of 1906-1931 were placed in the Statistisches Landesamt > Bremen, which was bombed on 6 October 1944, resulting in the destruction > of the remaining Bremen lists. An incomplete name index of the lists for > 1904- > 1914 is held at the Bundesarchiv Koblenz, with microfilms available via your > local LDS FHC. The Bremen Handelskammer archives has an apparently > complete duplicate of the lists for 1922-1939." can be found at URL > http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/faqs/sgg.html#contents > > for now, > > A. John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net > 963 McIver Rd > Great Falls, MT 59404 > > >