In einer eMail vom 08.01.2008 18:58:17 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt
hannover-l-request@genealogy.net:
Do you think I will ever find any ship records out of Breman? Or is it
true that they are gone by fire.
Hi Sandy
The truth is much harder. I hope my english is good enough to explain that
worst case in history of genealogy.
The reason why there are no more records in Bremen is easy. In the early
20th century, they had not enough space to store all those datas and of course
that time they had no microfilms. And the people who have left Germany ....
well our German Emperor was lucky about each and every rebell who has left
Germany cause many of them have been unlucky in Germany not enough food no work
not content with the German Government. Nobody of our officicials cried a tear
for those people leaving our country.
And so they decided to make more space and THEY burned the shiplists to get
space for new ones. This is no accident as for example the 1890 census who is
nearly completely burned.
So no hope to find anything in Bremen before 1920 !
But we have the American Shiplists thank god, even when they are sometimes a
little bit confusing !
Armin