Hamburg Passenger Lists
The Hamburg passenger lists contain the names of millions of Europeans who departed Europe from Hamburg, Germany between 1850 and 1934 (except 1915–1919). Nearly one-third of Germans, and 90 percent of the people who emigrated from eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary, Romania) during this time are included on these lists. If you have ancestors who emigrated from these areas, the Hamburg passenger lists could provide important genealogical information about them, including their hometowns.
The passenger lists are made up of two sections. Each section has its own separate handwritten index. The Direct Passenger Lists include passengers who left Hamburg, Germany, and sailed directly to their destination without stopping at other European ports. The Indirect Passenger Lists include passengers who stopped at another European or British port before sailing to their final destination. About 20 percent of the immigrants leaving Europe took indirect routes.
- Learn how to use the Lists at Family Search
- This page from the Family Search Research Wiki provides background information on how the Lists were created and offers suggestions on how to use them to obtain the most relevant information.
- Browse images on Ancestry.com.au
- The database includes images of the passenger lists digitized from microfilm in partnership with the Hamburg State Archive. The database also includes a partial index, covering the years 1850-1914.
Staatsarchiv Hamburg. Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. - Browse the handwritten indexes at Ancestry.com.au
- This database contains handwritten indexes to the passenger lists of ships departing from Hamburg, Germany. The database includes images digitized from microfilm in partnership with the Hamburg State Archive. To access the original passenger lists, please refer to the database (Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934). These handwritten indexes can assist you in finding your ancestor in the original passenger lists for the years 1855-1934, and are especially helpful for locating records for those years that have not yet been electronically indexed.
- Search the Index at findmypast.com.au
- FindMyPast enables digital indexes to be searched and for subscribers to view transcripts of records found. There are no images available to check the transcription or to look for other passengers who may have been in the same group.
- Study all the data on CDrom at the library
- A transcription of the lists of all ships that left Hamburg for Moreton Bay over a thirty year period published by the Queensland Family History Society (Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia 1850-1879) is available for use at Strathpine Library. This is the information source used by findmypast (see above) but searched in this way, you can obtain much more information on family groups travelling together.