German Emigrants Database

Legal and financial holder of the GED is the charitable “Association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven e.V.” The data collected is based on the passenger manifests of the emigrant ships.

At the beginning of the 19th century 14 specific items of information were collected on the passenger manifests by the respective immigrants.

[5] In the German Emigrants Database the information of the passenger manifests is supplemented by other sources, such as certificates and civil registers.

The German Emigrants Database has received its extensive overall data for the years 1850-1891 from the Center for Immigration Research.

[9][10] This sort of research offered is grated by fees[11] depending on the emigrated person, family or group requested.

Unless noted otherwise, the user receives a certificate to any person found with the traditional data of emigration, after the research is completed.