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GERMANS
TO AMERICA
Because
of the many generous donations from German Interest Group members and others,
IGS now has 66 volumes of Germans to America, and is collecting
donations toward the remaining volumes.
The Germans
to America series lists passengers arriving at U.S. ports from 1850
forward, eventually to cover the years through 1893.
Currently, we can search through October 1895.
For a
small fee, ALL OF WHICH WILL GO TOWARD ADDITIONAL GERMAN RESEARCH MATERIALS
FOR THE LIBRARY, a German Interest Group member will look up your surname in
the appropriate volume(s).
Include
$10.00 for a search, any additional information which may help the researcher
find the right person (especially the probable year of immigration and the
names AND AGES of anyone likely to be traveling with your ancestor).
NOTE:
Some resources added to the IGS Library through
these services:
+++ purchase of GERMANS
TO AMERICA, Vol.48-66
+++
subscription to GERMAN
GENEALOGICAL DIGEST |
MEYERS
ORTS LEXICON
If you
know the name of the town, village, or hamlet from which your ancestors came,
a German Interest Group volunteer can look it up in the MEYERS ORTS LEXICON,
a 1912 German gazetteer on microfilm which lists localities in Germany
according to the boundaries of the 1871 German Empire.
The MEYERS
ORTS LEXICON can identify the place where civil registry records were kept
for each locality and can determine whether a locality had a Lutheran,
Reformed, or Catholic parish or Jewish synagogue.
For a
small fee, of which ALL MONEY IN EXCESS OF COSTS WILL GO TOWARD ADDITIONAL
GERMAN RESEARCH MATERIALS FOR THE LIBRARY, a German Interest Group member will
look up your location and send you a copy of the page and a helpful hints
article to help to make sense of the abbreviations and Gothic script.
Include
$10.00 for each locality name, along with any variant spellings you know of,
and any additional information which will help the researcher find the right
place IN CASE MORE THAN ONE LOCALITY IN GERMANY MIGHT HAVE THE SAME NAME.
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