Lower Saxony

Materials relating to emigration from Lower Saxony, including the historic German state Duchy of Brunswick, the historic Free State of Oldenburg, and the district of Schaumberg.

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Auswandererlisten des ehemaligen Herzogtums Braunschweig. Ohne Stadt Braunschweig u. Landkrels Holzminden. 1846-1871. by Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein
Call Number: DD801.B822 Q4 Bd. 20 JV8095.B75
Published/Created: 1971
Emigrants listed by town, excludes the capital city of Braunschweig and the district of Holzminden.
Brunswick deserter-immigrants of the American Revolution by Clifford N. Smith
Call Number: E268 .S64 1973
Published/Created: 1973
Alphabetical list of deserter-immigrants giving birthplace, age, date, and place where the individual left service.

Auswanderungen und Auswanderer aus dem ehemaligen Kreise Lingen nach Nordamerika by Walter Tenfelde
Call Number: JV6453 .T46 1993
ISBN: 3980006468
Published/Created: 1993
An alphabetical list of emigrants from Kreis Lingen to North America appears on pages 67 to 355.
From Bremen to America in 1850 by Clifford N. Smith
Call Number: E184.G3 S663 1987
ISBN: 0915162814
Published/Created: 1987
The ship lists were originally published in the weekly newspaper Allgemeine Auswanderungs-Zeitung; contains a surname index.
German Immigrants by Gary J. Zimmerman, Marion Wolfert
Call Number: E184.G3 Z56 1985
ISBN: 0806311282
Published/Created: 2006
A partial reconstruction of some Bremen passenger lists, based on American sources. Only those passengers are included for whom a specific place of origin is given.

Auswanderung aus dem Birkenfelder land by Bonn a. Rh., Ludwig Röhrscheid verlag
Call Number: JV8095.B5 M6
Published/Created: 1939
A list of emigrants from the Birkenfeld area; includes year of emigration, name, hometown, occupation, number of dependents, and country of destination.
Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (Now Niedersachen), Germany by Clifford N. Smith
Call Number: E184.G3 S65946 1981
ISBN: 0915162113
Published/Created: 1981
Emigrants are listed by town; a surname index follows.
Emigrants from the Wolfersweiler region of Germany to Pennsylvania, 1730-1750 by Raymond M. Bell
Call Number: F160.G3 B43 1982
Published/Created: 1982
Names come from ship passenger lists for Philadelphia and the church books of Wolfersweiler; contains a surname index.

Schaumburger Auswanderer, 1820-1914 by Heike Matzke
Call Number: CS627.S363 S33 1995
ISBN: 388368273X
Published/Created: 1995
A supplement to Schaumburger Auswanderer, 1820-1914, edited by Heinrich Rieckenberg.
Schaumburger Auswanderer, 1820-1914 by Heinrich Rieckenberg
Call Number: CS627.S363 R54 1988
Published/Created: 1983
Alphabetical list of emigrants complied from the Hamburg ship lists in the Hamburg State Archives.

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