French port Marseilles

hannover-l
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Good morning:
         One of my Hannover ancestors from the Rehburg area used the port
of Marseilles, France to depart from Europe to come to America. The time
period was the late 1850's. Why would they go to the port of Marseilles
instead of Bremen or Hamburg? Does anyone have the statistics of German
emmigrants leaving the port of Marseilles?

Thanks

Doug

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Hi,
     Have you ever used the Immigrant Passenger lists on
        http://istg.rootsweb.com/
  Usually Germans left from L'havre if they were leaving from France. I
don't see that Marseilles is listed as a port. If you've never used that
site, you might do a search there.

Barbara Stewart