Sources for Research on Emigration History

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Germany / Europe

Overall views and Informations

Michael Palmer: German and American Sources for German Emigration to America.

Fachinformationsführer Geschichte der Uni Heidelberg ( link collection - in German)
Grüning, Uta: Auswanderung in die USA im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie webbasierter Materialien für den politisch-historischen Unterricht. Examensarbeit: Lehramt an Berufsbildenden Schulen. Oldenburg: Universität Oldenburg 2003

Emigrant Databases

Censusdata, Military data, churchbooks etc. (for a fee) Ancestry.de
Emigrants from Liechtenstein
The Danisch emigration Database

Local Emigrant Data

Schleswig-Holstein

Northfrisian Emigrant Archives
Emigration out of Schleswig-Holstein in 19. century


Lower Saxony

Die niedersächsischen Staatsarchive - Auswandererquellen (online - Database of Lower Saxon Emigration Data from the State Archives)
Emigrants from Oldenburg (OGF)
Johannes Ostendorf: Zur Geschichte der Auswanderung aus dem alten Amt Damme (Oldenbg.), insbesondere nach Nordamerika, in den Jahren 1830 - 1880. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 46/47 (1942 - 43) [Emigration from the old County of Damme (Oldenburg)]

Auswanderung aus dem alten Amt Wildeshausen. Ein Projekt des Gymnasiums Wildeshausen (Emigration from the old county of Wildeshausen (Oldenburg) - German)
Emigration from the Former County of Delmenhorst 1830 - 1930
Emigration from the County of Cuxhaven 1830 - 1930
Emigration from the Counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta 1830 - about 1875
Emigration from Bad Laer in the 19th Century
List of Buer Emigrants to the USA
Emslanders to the American Mid-West
Emigrants from Schaumburger 1820 - 1914

Bremen

Emigration Bremer Bürger


Mecklenburg

Emigrants from the Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Strelitz


Northrhine-Westphalia

Emigrants from Lippe
Emigrants from Steinfurt


Rhineland - Palatinate

Emigration from Rhineland-Palatinate


Baden-Württemberg

Emigrants from South-West Germany/ More than 50.000 emigrant-names online available

Bavaria

Emigrants from the Ries

History of German Emigration

Willi Paul Adams. The German Americans. An Ethnic Experience. (Deutsche Fassung: Deutsche im Schmelztiegel der USA. 3. Edition.) Berlin: Senat 1994

Forschungsbibliothek Gotha: Nordamerika - Auswandererbriefe (Emigrant letters)
Emigration to America: Pictures and Informations

Emigrant songs

www.volksliederarchiv.de/amerika - emigrant songs

www.von-fallersleben.de -  some emigrant songs written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben (author of the German national anthem)

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USA

Zentrale Quellen zur Einwanderung

United States Historical Census Data Browser

Census Online

Census Data, Military Data etc. (for a fee) Ancestry.com

Sources in German immigration areas

Germany and America

Mormonen - Family Search