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Congress, Washington, D.C.
This means that you yourself can look at the microfilm of the actu
records--or you can have a researcher in the U.S. do it for you. There ar
many reliable businesses and independent professionals in the Salt Lake Ci
area who are thoroughly familiar with these records and will do a thorough
search for the records for a reasonable fee. Check the advertisements in
quarterly Genealogical Helper if you need some leads. Or, you may request
list of researchers accredited by the Salt Lake Genealogical Library by
sening a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: The Genealogical Library, 35
West Tmple, Salt Lake City UT 84150. Naturally, you would contact the
researchers directly about their fees.
Even if you do decide to search the records yourself, you do not n
to travel to Salt Lake City. All microfilmed records in Salt Lake City ar
also available on a rental basis at the Genealogical Library's many
branches--in every fair-sized city in the country.
Whether you plan to conduct your own search of the microfilm or
contract with a professional researcher to to do it for you, here is some
information that will be helpful. This was taken from the four sources
listed at the end.
The Hamburg Passenger List covers 1850 to 1934, except for the yea
1914 through 1919 because the lists were not kept during World War I. Not
if your ancestor emigrated prior to 1850, these records won't help you.
There are actually two separate passenger lists: Direct and Indire
Both are indexed. The Direct List contains emigrants who left Hamburg and
traveled directly to their place of destination, while the Indireect List
the emigrants who left Hamburg and traveled to another port (usually in
England and perhaps changing ships) and then went on to their place of
destination. Since you probably don't know exactly what your ancestors di
you will check both the Direct and Indirect lists.
The Direct and Indirect lists have separate indexes up until 1910.
After 1910, the Indirect List index has been combined with the Direct List
index. Both indexes are mere groupings under the first letter of the
surname. For example, all the names beginning with "A" are together, but
they are not in alphabetical order. In the Direct List for 1850-1854, the
passenger list itself was arranged this way. Also, in the indexing, a
certain number of pages were allotted to each letter of the alphabet. Som
letters of the alphabet naturally have more surnames (such as "S") and wou
not fit the allocated pages, so they were continued on pages with fewer na
(such as "Q" or "X"). In addition, a card index to alphabetize completely
the names from 1856-1871 with additional information was started but it wa
not completed. Check this card index first, but if the name is not found,
then check the regular Direct or Indirect indexes.
Here is how you find the number of the microfilm roll to look at i
while you are in Salt Lake City or to have your Branch Library order it frSalt Lake City so you can see it in your hometown.
At the Genealogical Library (or at the local Branch in your city)
look in the microfiche drawer for the Genealogical Library Locality Catale
and then look under: Germany; then, Hamburg; then, Hamburg--Emigration and
Immigration. You will find on this microfiche an index of the microfilm c
numbers. When you select the one you want to see, the librarian will orde
it for you and notify you when it arrives. The Wellauer book (cited below
on pp. 55-56 lists the call numbers for the passenger lists 1850-1900 and
the index 1855-1901. There are a total of 105 rolls of microfilm for the
indexes to the regular emigrant lists and 361 rolls of microfilm of passen
lists for the years 1850-1934.
After this, the procedure gets more involved. For example, all
passengers are not listed by name--only the head of the household, with on
the word "frau" and number of "kinder." Since names of children are notal
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