Hello everyone, This item about the emigration lists from Bremen was also found in the Avotaynu newsletter. We thank Avotaynu again for their hard work and for making news such as this available for all of us. We hope this is found to be useful by those of you who have traced your family roots back to Europe. Thanks for being the ROOTWALKER family. Sincerely, Stan Magnesen ROOTWALKER site/list coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bremen Emigration Lists on Internet =================================== A portion of the surviving Bremen Emigration Lists have been placed on the Internet. The years 1920-1922 with part of 1923--172 sailings of 66,000 people--can be found at http://db.genealogy.net/maus/gate/shiplists.cgi. The project is a joint effort of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and a Bremen society for family research called Maus. Eventually the group hopes to put all surviving lists, through 1939, on the Internet. You can search the lists using a surname only or a portion of a surname. The system will then display all persons whose surname has the key letters supplied. Using the surname Weiss, the system displayed all names that had the consecutive characters w-e-i-s-s including Weiss, Schneeweiss, Schweiss, Serweiss, Stirnweiss, Weissenberg, Wessenberger, Weissenborn, Weissenbruch and others. There is no soundex search. Information provided includes name of the person, town of origin, ship, date of departure and name of the ship. The site states that ships left Bremen/Bremerhaven for the United States, Canada and South America. Lists earlier than 1920 were systematically destroyed by officials who ran out of storage space. The surviving lists had been stowed in a salt mine during World War II together with other archival material. After the war they were transferred by the Russians to the Moscow Archives. In 1987 and 1990 the lists were given back to the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.