Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce a new website concerning the emigration from Northwestern Germany to the US: www.german-immigrants.com --- Emigration from Northwestern Germany: Emslanders & Bentheimers in the New World. In the 19th century, more than 20,000 people emigrated from the region Emsland / Grafschaft (county) Bentheim, situated in the Northwestern part of Germany, to the United States of America. In the beginning, a close contact between the “Old” and the “New World” was established, mostly by writing letters. Over the years and decades, the relationship broke more and more. The website www.german-immigrants.com would like to revive this connection and will provide data and tools to enable interested people on both sides of the “salt-water curtain” doing research and taking up contact again or for the first time. A free-of-charge database with records on currently more than 15,000 German immigrants is the centerpiece of this website. --- Comments and additonal data are always welcome. Please feel free to forward this message to other interested people, too. Kind regards Martin Koers -- german-immigrants.com is a project of Heureka - the Historian's Office! Deegfelder Weg 105 D- 48531 Nordhorn / Germany Tel.: +49 (0)5921 - 726 499 Fax: +49 (0)3212 - 102 2712 http://geschichtsbuero-heureka.de http://german-immigrants.com "Wir schreiben Geschichte. Für Sie!" - "Making history visible!" Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese eMail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of this e-mail's content is strictly forbidden.