Hamburg Passenger Lists Online
Updated 6 October 2004
Hamburg, Germany, plays a vital role in researching 19th century immigrants from Europe, not just
Germany. Millions of people of other nationalities, mainly from eastern Europe, passed through
Hamburg. Five million immigrants came to America through this port between 1850 and 1934,
including more than a million Jewish refugees.
Through a new project, "LinkToYourRoots," these records are available to genealogists via the internet.
The first installment of the LinkToYourRoots database became accessible on 20 March 2000. "Commencing at first with the years 1890 - 1892, we will continually be adding more years on a
regular basis," says Ortwin Runde, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. "After a
period of four years, the Internet will contain the data of all the five million people having emigrated
to the United States of America through Hamburg."
The City of Hamburg, accommodating emigrants in the past and present, is in exclusive possession of
lists of those who passed through her utilizing the harbor. Bremen and other cities lost almost all of these
precious records, but only Hamburg managed to safeguard complete records covering the flow of emigrants
from 1850 to 1934. The Hamburg State Archive is the source and depository of all emigrant lists stemming from
this period as well as records of all Hamburg history.
For more information, contact the Staatsarchive Hamburg, Kattanbleiche 19, D-22041 Hamburg, Germany; fax:
+49-40-4281-3201; e-mail: LinkToYourRoots@staatsarchiv.hamburg.de
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