passenger list

The Passenger Lists

The Research Center has at it’s disposal 1586 rolls of Microfilm with passenger lists, which have been preserved. These rolls from the National Archives, Washington D.C., are available to the public in the library of the Oldenburg University.

Hours of the Media Center: Mo.-Fr. 10:00-16:00 Room 13, University Library

Phone: +49(0)441-798-3194, we would appreciate prior reservation.

You can order copies of the passengerlists for a fee from Routes to the Roots (Dr. Wolfang Grams).

Prof. Dr. Antonius Holtmann (standing) and Dr. Wolfgang
Grams. Photo: Peter Kreier (NWZ)

Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes Ports 1820 - 1873

Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes

Baltimore, Maryland 1820 - 1897

Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Maryland 1833 - 1866

Index (Soundex) to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Maryland 1820 - 1891

Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Maryland 1820 - 1869

Quarterly Abstracts* of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, Md.

Boston, Massachusetts 1820 - 1891

Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Mass.,

New Orleans, Louisiana 1853 - 1899

Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, La.,

New Orleans, Louisiana 1820 - 1902

Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, La.,

New Orleans, Louisiana 1820 - 1875

Quarterly Abstracts* of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, La.,

New York, New York 1820 - 1846

Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, N.Y.,

New York, New York 1820 - 1897

Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, N.Y.,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1800 - 1906

Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pa.,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1800 - 1882

Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pa.,

Quarterly Abstracts: Quarterly reports of the port authorities to the Federal Government in Washington D.C. (The reports of Baltimore have no names of the ships and no dates of the arrivals, reports of New Orleans have both the names of the ships and the dates of arrivals.).
These abstracts are important for genealogists and for migration research: They contain names of passengers even if the passenger lists of their ships have not been preserved.

Soundex: Names in the microfilm-indexes of Baltimore passenger lists can be found with assistance of the Soundex Coding System, in order to find also misspellings of names. A Soundex Converter (rootsweb for example) gives the code, if you enter a surname, for example: Holtmann = H 435.

Example of a passenger list:

The Ship "Audubon".
from Bremen to New York.
Date of Arrival October 23, 1854.

Printed Indexes and Indexes on CD-ROM (www.ancestry.com) are available in the Media Center (Mediathek) of the Oldenburg University Library:

Assion, Peter: Über Hamburg nach Amerika. Hessische Auswandernde in den Hamburger Schiffslisten 1855-1866. Marburg: Jonas 1991
Bentley, Elizabeth P.: Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1820-1832. 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1999/2000
Lee-Sheffield, Ella E.: Ships Passenger Lists. Port of Galveston, Texas. 1846-1871. Easly, SC: Southern Historical Press
Tepper, Michael: Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1982
Tepper, Michael: Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800-1819. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1986
Tepper, Michael: American Passenger Arrival Records. A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1988
Von-Maszewski, W.M.: German Emigration Ships to New Orleans 1865-1869: Pasadena, TX: Tortuga Press 1997
Zimmerman/Wolfert: German Immigrants Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Volume I: 1847-1854 (1987); Volume II: 1855-1862 (1986); Volume III: 1863-1867 (1988); Volume IV: 1868 - 1871 (1993)
9. Ira A. Glazier / William P. Filby (Ed.): Germans to America. Series I. Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. 1850- June1897. Volumes 1-67. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1988-2002
Ira A. Glazier (Ed.): Germans to America. Series II. Lists of Passengers Arriving at US-Ports in the 1840s. 1840-1849. Volumes 1-7. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press 2002-2004
CD 256 Passenger Lists Boston, 1821-1850
CD 273 Passenger Lists New York, 1820-1850
CD 359 Passenger Lists Philadelphia, 1800-1850
CD 259 Passenger Lists Baltimore, 1820-1852
CD 260 Passenger Lists Baltimore, 1853-1872
CD 358 Passenger Lists New Orleans, 1820-1850
CD 355 Germans to America, 1850-1874
CD 356 Germans to America, 1875-1888
CD 354 Pass. & Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
CD 170 Immigrants to the New World, 1600s-1800s
CD 267 German and Swiss Settlers, 1700s-1800s
CD 360 Russians to America, 1850-1896

“Germans to America“ provides deficient but nevertheless helpful indexes. The findings should always be checked against the originals on the microfilms or in the internet. Often last residences are not considered, and many passenger lists also, particularly Baltimore City Passenger Lists. Antonius Holtmann has cautioned against the „pitfalls“.

Stamp of the shipbroker J.D. Lüdering from Bremen at the passenger list of the Bremen brigg (two-masted vessel) "Die Freunde", arriving at Baltimore August 2, 1834 (National Archives, Washington D.C., Microfilm).

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