Hi Barbara,
Fill me in on this Emigration Archives----Bob Marhenke
Bob: - Ginny:
This may be what you are looking for.
http://app.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de/findbuch
I looked for Meyers and got the Smith run a round.
19 Heinrich
39+ Friedrich
19 Marie
10 Caroline
6 Charlotte
Part of the string is deleted for brevity.
Gale
Hello Bob,
There were 3 places where the Germans could apply for permission to
emigrate (like a passport). They are at Hannover, Osnabrück and
Wolfenbüttel. I think the period covered is from the mid-1800's up to maybe
the late-1800's, but I'm not really sure about the dates.
Searching the Osnabrück, Hannover, Wolfenbüttel emigration records
is done by going to the website:
http://app.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de/findbuch/
It is a little confusing to use, especially if you don't know German. On
the first page:
Choose one of the three locations on the bar & click Abschicken
Go to Index in the middle of the page and click
Fill in the surname you are looking for in the box "Suchbegriff"
Choose Personen where it says nach Ort
Click on Suchen starten and you will get a list of persons who emigrated
from Germany with that name. Or you may get nothing! Try all the same
search on all 3 locations.
Note the number on the right column. That number will direct you to the
town later. Click on a name that matches a person you are looking for and
you will get a code that will be what you use to order the record.
Finding what area the person comes from is not easy. On the Hannover
site, it names a town right in the code. For Osnabrück and Wolfenbüttel it
is harder. Go back to the page where you first clicked on Index and this
time click on
Gliederung.
There you will see a list of towns and if you click on the numbers on
the left, you will get a list of all the people from that area. The numbers
start with 1 and go up from there. So if the number is 5 digits it will be
closer to the bottom of the list. But you have to go to the one that has
the number in it from the right column of the page with the list of names.
When you find the right one, the code will match the code you saw earlier
tied to the name you were looking for. I know this is confusing. I have
explained the process many times on this site and it never is very clear!
Then, you can order the records from one of the 3 locations. The email
addresses are:
Hannover - poststelle@staatsarchiv-h.niedersachsen.de
Osnabrück - poststelle@staatsarchiv-os.niedersachsen.de
Wolfenbüttel - poststelle@staatsarchiv-wf.niedersachsen.de
You have to realize that these emigration records cover only certain
years--and not everybody is listed there. None of my relatives are. You're
lucky if you find them!!
Several people on the list have explained that the ordering process is
fairly easy. They will send you the records by regular mail and then you
send the money ( I think even a check will do.) I haven't done that part.
Barbara