Frederick Linneman came to Buffalo New York from Hannover in 1941 or 42
or 43. Are there extant ship records detailing passengers from hannover
to the US?
Gilbert,
Is that "1841 or 42 or 43" or "1941 . . ."??
If 1841 . . . then the ship's lists for New York from 1820 to 1846 have been indexed and the index and originals are on microfilm here at the National Archives in D.C.
There are no specific lists "detailing passengers from Hannover"--just the embarcation lists from certain ports such as Hamburg (1850 and on) and a few other ports. More importantly, the arrival lists at U.S. ports are largely extant (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, to name a few).
Some local historians in Germany, including Hannover, have invested a good portion of their lives researching various kinds of records over there (emigration permits, church registers etc.) and have published impressive compendia (in German) for their particular regions--for example, Werner Honkamp just mentioned a publication on emigrants from the Amt (or was it Kreis?) of Lingen. There are others on Braunschweig, Minden, M�nster etc. If you are lucky, your immigrant ancestor will appear in one of these, because they are more detailed than ships' lists!
I do get over to the National Archives on occasion for clients, so if you need help with checking the ships' lists, let me know.
--Gary
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