Ancestry Update - Immigration

Ancestry Update

Welcome to the Ancestry.co.uk Affiliate update. Whilst adding to our unrivalled record collections, we have also launched Passenger Lists, the world’s largest immigration collection has just triplet in size.

Below is an article about the passenger lists of ships departing from the port of Hamburg.

If you have a German website, here is your chance to push to this new release

Ancestry Adds Hamburg Emigration Lists, 1850-1934

Ancestry has added the Hamburg Emigration Lists, 1850-1934 to its Immigration Collection. This database contains images of passenger lists of ships departing from the port of Hamburg, Germany from 1850-1934 (except for 1915-1919 during WWI). These records were created by the Staatsarchiv Hamburg and have been digitized from microfilm in partnership with them. The years 1890-1913 are searchable, with the names found in the index linked to actual images of the passenger lists, Unindexed images from 1850-1890 can be browsed by year.

The Hamburg passenger lists are a great source for researchers with ancestors from central and eastern Europe as approximately one-third of the people from these areas who emigrated did so through Hamburg. If you do not know the place of origin of your ancestor, the Hamburg, Germany Passenger Lists is a great place to begin looking for that information.

There are two groups of passenger lists in this database – Direct Passenger Lists and Indirect Passenger Lists. Direct Passenger Lists include the ships that left from Hamburg and went directly to their final destination. Indirect Passenger Lists include the ships that left from Hamburg and stopped at other ports on the way to their final destination.

Information contained in this database includes:

• Name of passenger
• Gender
• Age
• Birth date (or estimated birth year if birth date is not available)
• Birthplace
• Occupation
• Residence
• Nationality
• Marital status
• Relationship to head of family
• Religion
• Military Service
• Final place of destination
• Port of departure
• Date of departure
• Port of arrival
• Shipping Line
• Ship Type
• Accommodation
• Ship Name
• Which flag sailed under
• Source information (page, line, microfilm roll, and series numbers)

What does this new database mean for affiliates –

A quick heads up as to how easy it is to create your own links for the Ancestry.co.uk affiliate programme.

Use the code below - together with your correct PID value - and you can create links to any of the pages under the Myfamily.com umbrella... Here's the code -

http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-InsertPID-10402952?url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Remember to insert your own PID and to change the Ancestry.co.uk link to any page on the Ancestry site. The easy way to create your own bespoke links.

If you have any additional queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us, we would be happy to help you.

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