I will be traveling throughout germany for the next two weeks.
I read the temperature is in the 80s and even higher at times.
I will be traveling to Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Dresden,
Munich, Heildelberg and return to Frankfurt where I will leave for the USA.
Is there an address where I can read the Passenger List from 1850 to 1900s
And in Bremen, where my grandfather Albert Drewes is buried. How would I go
about finding where he is buried.
I would appreciate any response or information that you may have knowledge.
There is a Alberd Drewes, as well as Trine Margarethe from Syke, in
the Hannover emigration records from Syke. Also, there is a Johann Drewes
from the same place. That town is south of Bremen.
We have visited several cemeteries in Germany, looking for our family.
We found no tombstones. There is a lack of space there, so only the more
recent tombstones are evident. All the cemeteries that we saw are very
nicely kept. In some areas, the family of the deceased takes care of the
burial places.
It is my understanding that there are few passenger lists in Germany,
except those that were copied from American lists. Hamburg lists are
available, I believe.
the University of Oldenburg have copies of all original passenger list of Washington DC on microfilm.
Oldenburg is located about 35 miles westerly of Bremen.
For contact you should go to this website:
Those same passenger lists are also at all the National Archives branches in the USA (DC, Chicago, Boston, NYC, etc.). The originals were turned in by the shipping company at the port of arrival in the USA and those have been microfilmed and are HERE.
I'd forget about the passenger lists until you get home and look for the cemetery and get grave photos because they turn them over in 60 years or less in Germany!