This item was in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter........ March 03, 2008 NARA Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online This National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced that it has made available for the first time online more than 5.2 million records of some passengers who arrived during the last half of the 19th century at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The records can be accessed through NARAs online Access to Archival Databases (AAD). The records were transcribed from original ship manifests into electronic databases by Temple Universitys Center for Immigration Research at The Balch Institute. The Center donated the digital records to the National Archives. The records are known as Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States, 1850-1897; Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to the United States, 1855-1900; and Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Russians to the United States, 1834-1897. This series consists of records of 527,394 passengers who arrived at the United States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine. There are records of passengers who were U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens planning to continue their travels, returning to the U.S., or staying in the U.S. There are records of passengers arriving at the following ports: Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia; the bulk of the records are for passengers arriving at the Port of New York. Each of the passenger records may include name, age, town of last residence, destination, and codes for passenger's sex, occupation, literacy, country of origin, transit and/or travel compartment, and the identification number for the ship manifest. Information on each ship is in the manifest header file and includes the ship manifest identification number, the name of the ship, the code for its port of departure, and date of arrival. The ship manifest identification number indicates the port of arrival. The new databases may be found at http://aad.archives.gov/aad/index.jsp. On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:18:09 -0000 > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] Johann Heinrich Germer and Family > emigration to Baltimore from Duchy of Braunschweig > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: Cantonator > Surnames: GERMER > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.maryland.counties.baltimorecity/8026/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I am seeking help finding the emigration information for my g.g.g.grandfather and his family from Braunschweig, Germany to Baltimore. This occurred sometime just before the 1850 census. I would like to find the ship the family traveled on and the date this occurred. I am grateful for your help. > Great-great-great-grandparents family information: > > Johann Heinrich Germer Sr Born- 9 Jan 1809 Sickte, Germany, Died- 27 Jan 1882 Baltimore, Maryland USA Shoemaker > Wife-Dorothea Henrietta Wilhelmine Schluter Born- 21 Dec 1808 Braunschweig, Germany, Died 23 Mar 1881 Baltimore, Maryland USA > Son- Frederick Christopher Germer Born- 8 Aug 1831 Braunschweig, Germany, Died 11 Sep 1891 Baltimore, Maryland USA Shoemaker (child from a first marriage of Dorothea is what the family history is told. This may or may not be true) > Son-Johann Heinrich Germer Jr Born- 26 Oct 1835 Braunschweig, Germany, Died 12 Nov 1919 Baltimore, Maryland USA Shoemaker > Daughter- Sophia Elizabeth Germer Born- 29 Oct 1839 Braunschweig, Germany, Died 17 Oct 1930 Baltimore Maryland USA > Daughter- Amelia or Menna (middle name not known) Germer Born- about 1842 Braunschweig, Germany died sometime in the 1850s > I have detailed information of my family after they arrived in Baltimore, Maryland USA. They appear for the first time in the 1850 United States census. Johann Germer appears in the Baltimore street directories for the first time in the 1849-50 Matchett´s Baltimore Street Directory. I can not find any information about the family being in the Baltimore, Maryland prior to 1850. The date on the United States 1850 census from Ward 1 in Baltimore, Maryland is 5 Aug 1850. Johann and his family were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baltimore. Johann, his sons and eventually grandsons had a successful shoemaking business in Baltimore´s Fells Point area until the early 1900s. I have a copy of great-great-great-grandfather´s master craftsman´s diploma for shoemaking from the Duchy of Braunschweig. > The family name had three spellings since arriving in Baltimore, Germer, Garner and Garmer. Germer is the way Johann Heinrich´s name is spelled on his diploma. The family name is listed in the US 1850 census as Germer all listed from Germany. The family name is listed in the US 1860 census as Garner all listed from Prussia. The family name is listed in the US 1870 census as Garmer all listed from Brunswick. The Baltimore street directories reflect this gradual "Americanizing" of our family name. Johann Heinrich Sr and Jr also eventually changed their first names to John Henry. Johann Heinrich Germer Sr. purchased a home in 1865 and his name is listed as John H Garmer Sr on the deed.