Kathy,
Hope the links below will be helpful in your search for your ancestor
Gottlieb Heinz.
_Click here: ltyr.hamburg.de - Deutsch | Link to your Roots und
Familienfoschung_
(http://ltyr.hamburg.de/index/1,2709,JGdlbz0zJG9rPTE5MTA0JHVrPSQ_,00.html)
_Click here: International Genealogical Data - Trace Immigrant Ancestors_
(http://www.genealogy.com/355facd.html?priority=0000900) (Germans to America
features approximately 2,000,000 names of immigrants who arrived in the U.S.
between 1850 and 1874)
_Click here: Germans to America_
(Germans to America) (Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at
U.S. Ports 1850-1897)
Edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby. (Wilmington: _Scholarly
Resources_ (http://www.scholarly.com/) , 1988-)
TITLE: Germans to America : lists of passengers arriving at
U.S. Ports 1850-1897
EDITOR: Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby.
PUB. INFO: Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources, 1988-
DESCRIPTION: v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECTS: *S1 German Americans--Genealogy.
*S2 Ships--United States--Passenger lists.
*S3 Immigrants--United States--Registers.
*S4 United States--Emigration and immigration.
*S5 Germany--Emigration and immigration.
NOTES: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
ISBN: 0-8420-2279-1 (set)
LOCATION: LC E184.G3 G38 1988
From the website:
"Note: These series can be found in many large research and genealogical
libraries and should be consulted there. The volumes may also be available for
purchase; list price is US$90 per volume (2003). These volumes are not held by
the contributor of this listing, nor are they available anywhere on the
internet. Please consult the accompanying _list_
(Germans to America Holding Libraries) of known holding libraries.
Broderbund publishes most of the book series in CD form: _Family Archive CD
355_ (Software MacKiev - Family Tree Maker) : "Passenger and
Immigration Lists: Germans to America, 1850-1874", and _Family Archive CD 356_
(Software MacKiev - Family Tree Maker) : "Passenger and Immigration Lists:
Germans to America, 1875-1888". These CDs contain some entries that are absent in
the book series. The passengers are listed strictly alphabetically on the
CDs; this often makes it difficult to discern family groups properly. They also
do not list the port of arrival; for that information you must consult the
books instead. For a list of volunteers willing to do lookups in genealogical
CDs, see the _Genealogy CD List"_ (Genealogy CD List) . The
following organizations will do lookups in the book series for a fee:
* _Family Tree Maker_ (Software MacKiev - Family Tree Maker)
* _National Genealogical Society_ (http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/)
Also for a fee, the Friends of the Morgenstern Museum will do lookups in a
database derived and extended from this series, which is maintained by the
_Historisches Museum Bremerhaven_
(http://www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de/) . In addition, the Forschungsstelle Deutsche Auswanderer in den USA
(_DAUSA_ (http://www.dausa.de/) ) will do lookups for a fee in the book series and
the CDs combined with the possibility to get photocopies of the original
passenger lists. The DAUSA also has, in German and English, critical remarks to
"Germans to America" (see "Passagierlisten/passenger lists") on its homepage.
This book series indexes passenger arrival lists from US ports, giving
names, ages, occupations, and sometimes places of origin for many German
immigrants, grouped by families. It also lists the ship, ports, and the date of the
passenger ship list. The quality of the transcription varies, and because of
its inclusion criteria, it is to be considered an incomplete index to German
passengers, but it still can be quite useful. Make sure you consult the
original passenger lists also!
Note in particular that 000 as an indication of the place of origin seems
ambiguous because, in the book's typeface, O looks like 0. It almost always
means place unknown (000), not Obermoellrich (O00)."
Sincerely,
Wilma M. Cain
safrau@aol.com
German Native
Texan by Heart