Volga German Ship Lists on the InternetThere are many excellent sources of ship lists on the internet, especially for Volga German research. The most massive resource is of course the Ellis Island site, which contains ship lists for all ships landing in New York from 1892-1924. An alternate and very powerful site for researching the Ellis Island site can be found at Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step.For German Russian ship lists into Canada, the Odessa digital library has many German Russian indexes: Quebec 1900-1909, Quebec 30 May 1910 - 12 June 1910, Quebec 1909-1914, Halifax 1900-1914, St. John 1900-1909, St. John 1910-1914, and Portland, ME 1906-1912. A full text search of all ship lists can be performed easily by clicking on the blue "Full Text Search" button, but since there are so many mispellings in surnames, it is always best to search each file individually. Some of our Volga German ancestors that were heading to Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas entered the United States at Galveston, TX. The Texas Seaport museum has put together a Galveston Immigration Database. While not complete, it does contain some German Russian records. AHSGR has indexed references to all of their ship list indexes published in their Clues and Journals. You can search by surname, village name or ship name to find the periodical in which the ship list index was published. Janet's Germans from Russia Research has many ship lists indexed with German Russians for the ports of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Galveston. Many of our Volga German ancestors immigrated from Hamburg, Germany. Searchable indexes for ship departing from Hamburg, Germany have been completed for the years 1890-1900. |
Ship List Indexes for US portsThis ship list indexes of German Russian immigrants was compiled by Gene Jenkins.Port of Baltimore, 1897-1918, surnames Wahl to Wunsch. 
Ship List Indexes for Volga VillagesThese ship list indexes of immigrants from Volga Villages were compiled by Gene Jenkins. I will be happy to host any ship list indexes compiled for individual Volga Villages.Balzer ship lists Brunnental ship lists Dietel ship lists Frank ship lists Hussenbach ship lists Kolb ship lists Norka ship lists Saratov Ship lists Walter ship lists Warrenburg ship lists Yagodnaya Polyana~ sorted by surname | Yagodnaya Polyana~ sorted by date
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