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From: Dave Crane <>
Subject: Re: [G-T] Ships from Bremen
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:21:04 -0600
In-Reply-To: <007d01c2b680$10387600$e08fed18@mom>

At 01:07 PM 1/7/03, you wrote:
>I am interested in ships from Bremen. My ancestors came to Galveston from
>Bremen. Unfortunately it is reputed that someone related to them had died on
>the voyage. The only way to clarify this by my thinking is to see the
>original manifest. I had understood that the Bremen records were destroyed
>in the WWII. Can anyone clarify?
>
>Mary Jefferson
>Juneau, Alaska

As far as 19th century record are concerned, that is essentially
correct. See http://feefhs.org/frl/spl/bremenmf.html for a discussion.

However, just because the port of embarkation records were lost, it does
not mean that all records were lost. I read somewhere that there is an
effort to reconstruct as many of the Bremen records as possible using other
sources, like arrival records and the paperwork required to get permission
to leave Germany in those days. Search for "reconstruct"
in http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/gta-revu2.html and in
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/WELT/usa.html which says:

"Although the Bremen lists have been destroyed, valiant efforts have been
made to reconstruct them, using the arrival lists kept in New York, at
least for the period 1847-71. An index of these records has been published
in the book German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New
York by Gary J. Zimmerman and Marion Wolfert. It is published in Baltimore
by Genealogical Publishing in the years 1985, '86, '88 and '93. The book is
in four volumes."

As for deaths in route, the arrival manifests often mention them, too.

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