Includes both direct lists (passengers who sailed directly from Hamburg to their destination and indirect lists (passengers who sailed from Hamburg, but who stopped at another European port before reaching their destination).

Consult Microform Reading Room guide no. 529, available in the Reference Assistance Room of the Main Reading Room.

Reproduces about 6700 German emigrant letters from the United States written between 1820 and 1930, collected by Wolfgang Helbich. About 85% are in the form of Xerox copies of the originals, 10% are in transcription form only (the originals have been lost), and 5% are the original letters. Biographical research and background studies on the letter writers is reproduced along with the letters, including parish registers, emigration lists, judicial records, passenger lists, manuscript census, city directories, county histories, platbooks, etc.

An alphabetic listing of names, including birthdates, time of emigration, and destination; covers the entire former German Empire and emigration years from 1820 through 1918.
Each fiche includes at the end an index of names listed on that fiche and their frame location.