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From: "Gerald Kattke" <>
Subject: [POSEN] Stettin passenger lists
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:41:40 -0600


Digging thru some old papers:

Here are some pages copied from "Iowa Staats-Anzeiger" (Des Moines? I'm not sure)
for 26 feb 1891. In the advertisements is one for Baltische Linie. They claim to be the
best way to get to and from villages in "Brandenburg, Pommern, Preussen, Posen,
Schlesien, Sachsen, Osterreich, Bohmen, Ungarn, Russland, Polen, und Danemark."
Apparently they picked up passengers in Stettin, stopped at Copenhagen, and went
to New York. The ad lists offices in Des Moines, Chicago, and New York.

This raises questions: why are they advertising in an Iowa newspaper? Do any Stettin
passenger lists exist? Were any records left at Copenhagen? Are these ships included
in the "Germans to America" series? Is there a way to sort out these ships from the NY
passenger arrival records?

Does anyone know anything about this?

Jerry Kattke

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