German Genealogy Study Group
7. Books
Updated 10 Feb 1999
Books--General German Genealogy
"In Search of Your German Roots" - Angus Baxter
114 pgs, softcover, 1994 $11.95 Easy reading, Newbie
help or nice refresher!
"Address Book for Germanic Genealogy" - Ernest Thode
196 pgs, softcover 1997 $24.95 Addresses! Addresses!
"German-English Genealogical Dictionary" - Ernest Thode
286 pgs, softcover (1992-93) $29.95 German genealogical
terms defined in simple English!
"German Church Records Beyond the Basics" - Kenneth L Smith
223 pgs, hardcover 1993 $29.50 Illustrations & samples of
handwriting, upper & lower case letters...for the beginner & you! :-)
"German-American Names" - George F Jones
320 pgs, hardcover 1995 $25.00 Name sources, variations of approx.
12,000+ names! (2nd edition)
BOOKS of Passenger lists
Auswanderung Landratsamter Polizeiprasidium Koln.
Computer printout (published?) available at: "Das Hauptstaatsarchiv
Dusseldorf", Mauerstrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Auswanderer, Aken, Dusseldorf, Koln.
Computer printout (published?) available at: "Das Hauptstaatsarchiv
Dusseldorf", Mauerstrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Boyer
Ship Passenger Lists. New York & New Jersey. 1600-1825. 7,700 names.
Boyer
Ship Passenger Lists. National & New England. 1600-1825. 6,500 names.
Boyer
Ship Passenger Lists. The South. 1538-1825. 8,700 names.
Boyer
Ship Passenger Lists. Pennsylvania & Delaware. 1641-1825. 6,500 names.
The Cincinnati Volksfreund. Copies: Cincinnati Public Library, 800 Vine
Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
Coldham, Peter Wilson
The complete book of emigrants, 1606-1660. List of British emigrants to the
US.
Coldham, Peter Wilson
The complete book of emigrants, 1661-1699
Coldham, Peter Wilson
Bonded passengers to America. 1983
Colletta, J.P.
They came in ships. Washington 1989
Diffenderffer, F.R.
The German Exodus to England in 1790. Published 1897. For reprints see:
Tolzman, D.H.
Dosseler, E.
Die Aus- und Einwanderung Westfalens. In: Westfalische Forschungen. Band
19, 1966. (Available at: Das Hauptstaatsarchiv Dusseldorf, Mauerstrasse,
Dusseldorf, Germany)
Emigrants from the Attendorn (Germany) area, see:
Heimatblatter fur das kurkolnische Sauerland, volumes from 1948 to 1958
Faust & Brumbaugh
Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century to the American Colonies. Zurich
(1734-1744), Bern (1706-1795) and Basel (1734-1794) archives. 2,300 names.
Filby, P.W.
Passenger and immigration lists. Index & Supplements. 1981
Filby, P.W. & Glazier
Germans to America, 1850-1866. 18 Volumes. 70,500 names indexed per volume.
Filby, P.W.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Preliminary Edition.
Fouche, N.
Emigration alsacienne Etats-Unis, 1815-1870.
Publications de la Sorbonne. Paris, 1992.
Gruhne, F.
Auswanderungslisten des ehemaligen Herzogtums Braunschweig 1846-1871
(ohne Stadt Braunschweig und Landkreis Holzminden).
Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein. Braunschweig, 1971.
Hamilton County, Ohio Naturalization Index.
Copies: Archives and Rare Books Department, 8 th Floor, Carl Blegen
Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0113, USA
Hughes, L.E.
Hamilton County, Ohio citizenship record abstracts, 1837-1916.
Heritage Books, Inc., 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Suite 400, Bowie, MD 20716.
Immigrants to America (Mainly Wisconsin) from the Former Recklinghausen
District (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) Around the Middle of the
19th-Century.
Available for $20 postpaid from Westland Publications, PO Box 117, McNeal,
Arizona 85617-0117
Jacobs, H.E.
The German emigration to America, 1709-1740. Published 1898. For reprints
see: Tolzman, D.H.
Jansen, Norbert
Nach Amerika! Geschichte der liechtensteinischen Auswanderung nach den
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.
Verlag des Historischen Vereins fuer das Fuerstentum Liechtenstein. Vaduz,
1976. 216 pages.
Includes a list of all known emigrants from Liechtenstein to US.
Jones Jr, Henry Z.
Palatine Families of New York. 2 Volumes. Includes 16,600 German Immigrants
arriving in New York in 1710.
Laybourn, N.
L'emigration des Alsaciens et des Lorrains du XVIIIe au Xxe siecle: essai
d'histoire demographique.
Association des publications pres les universites de Strasbourg.
Strasbourg, 1986.
Muller, F.
Westfalische Auswanderer im 19. Jahrhundert - Auswanderung aus dem
regierungsbezirk Munster, I. Teil, 1803-1850.
Published in: "Beitrage zur westfalischen Familienforschung". Band 22-24,
1964-1966.
Riekenberg, H.
Schaumburger Auswanderer 1820-1914. Vol. 48 of Schaumburger Studien,
Historische Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Schaumburg.
Rinteln, 1988. Verlag C. Boesendahl. Distribution: Ernst Knoth, Druckerei
und Verlags GmbH, Postfach 226, D-49303 Melle. ISBN: 3-87085-122-3
Rupp, prof. I.D.
The Collection of upwards of 30,000 names of immigrants to Pennsylvania
etc. Book has been published in German and English. 1898. Reprints available.
Schenk, Froelke, Bork
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. 5 Volumes. 59,500 names.
Schrader-Muggenthaler
Alsace Emigration Book. Volume 1. 13,000 persons who emigrated from or
through Alsace, 1740-1875.
Ships Passenger Lists. Port of Galveston, Texas. 1846-1871. Galveston Co.
Genealogical Society. 7,800 names.
Steuart, B.W. (editor)
Passenger ships arriving in New York Harbor, Volume 1, 1820-1850. 1991.
25,500 entries.
Precision Indexing, PO Box 303, Bountiful, UT 84011.
Strassburger, R.B. & Hinke, W.J.
Pennsylvania German Pioneers. 2 Volumes. Arrivals at port of Philadelphia
1727-1808. 38,500 names. Genealogical Publishing Co., Dept. MR, 1001 N.
Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202-3897.
Swierenga, R.P.
Dutch Immigration in US ships etc., 1820-1880.
Swierenga, R.P.
Dutch emigration records 1847-1877.
Swierenga, R.P.
Dutch households in United States population censuses, 1850, 1860, 1870.
Swierenga, R.P.
Dutch Immigration in US, SA, South America and S-E Asia. 1835-1880.
Tepper, M.
American passenger arrival records. A guide to the records of immigrants
arriving at American ports by sail and steam. Baltimore 1988
Tepper, M.
New World Immigrants. Volume I & II. 1979
Tolzman, D.H. (editor)
German immigration to America: the first wave. Reprints of books by
Diffenderffer and H.E. Jacobs.
Heritage Books, Inc., 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Suite 400, Bowie, MD 20716.
Tolzman, D.H. (editor)
The first Germans in America with a biographical directory of New York.
Heritage Books, Inc., 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Suite 400, Bowie, MD 20716.
Treude, F.
Die Auswanderung aus dem kurkolnischen Sauerland im Zuge der
Theresianischen Banatbesiedlung 1763-1772. In: Schriftenreihe des Kreises
Olpe. Nr. 14.
Orders: Kreisverwaltung Olpe, Kreisarchiv, Kurfurst Heinrich Str. 34, 57462
Olpe, Germany.
United States Works Projects Administration.
Index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of
allegiance, 1789-1880, in US circuit courts etc. 11 Volumes compiled by
WPA, project number 20837.
Wolfert, M.
German Immigrants: lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New York,
1868-1871, with places of origin. 1993. Previous volumes (1, 2, 3) cover
1847-1867.
Genealogical Publishing Co., Dept. MR, 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD
21202-3897.
Zimmerman & Wolfert
German Immigrants from Bremen to New York. 1847-1862. 2 Volumes. 57,000
individuals.
Zimmerman, G.J. & Wolfert, M.
German immigrants: Lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New York,
1855-1862. 1986
Books--Germans from Russia Bruntz, George C. "Children of the Volga", Dorrance & Co., Ardmore
Pennsylvania, 1981
Fiechtner, Friedrich, "Fateful Danube Journey" Trans. by Theodore C.
Wenzloff. North Dakota Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Bismarck,
North Dakota. 1973
Giesinger, Adam, "From Catherine to Kruschev: The Story of Russia's Germans.
(Privately Published by the author). Marian Press, Battleford, Sask.,
Canada. 1974 Believe it is available from AHSGR
Hale, Douglas, "The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma" Oklahoma Department of
Libraries, the Oklahoma Library Association, and the National Endowment for
the Humanities. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. 1980
Height, Joseph S., "Paradise on the Steppe. (Privately published by the
author). Germany. 1972 (Check AHSGR for availability)
Koch, Fred C., "The Volga Germans: In Russia and America, From 1863 to the
Present" The Pennsylvania State University Press. University Park & London. 1977
Sallet, Richard, "Russian-German Settlements in the United States" Trans by
LaVern J. Rippley and Armand Bauer. North Dakota Institute for regional
Studies, Fargo, No. Dakota. 1974
Scheuerman, Richard D., "Pilgrims on the Earth" A German-Russian Chronicle.
Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Wash. 1976
Scheierman, Richard D., and Trafzer, Clifford E. "The Volga Pioneers of the
Northwest" University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. 1985
Stumpp, Karl, "The German Russians" Trans. by Joseph S. Height. A. Erdl KG,
Trostberg, Germany. 1965. Jubilele Edition.
Stumpp, Karl, "The Emigration From Germany to Russia in the Years 1763-1862.
Tubingen, Germany. 1973
Check the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia in Lincoln, Nebraska, or the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (Home of Record is located in Bismarck, North Dakota) for availability.
Most of these books should also be available on inter-library loan.
E-mail Lynn (lynnd@adnc.com) with corrections or comments