Since 1845 about a third of central and eastern Europe’s emigrants to other continents took passage from Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is a key city in the densely populated and industrialized Nordrhein-Westfalen area of Germany. The Atlantic Bridge to Germany, Volume VII, is a historical survey, with indexes, of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
This volume, written and compiled by Charles M. Hall, indexes approximately 3,000 repositories of genealogical records. These repositories consist predominately of research for events prior to civil registration, which began in earnest around 1792. There are also records from 50 state and city archives along with 60 counties.
A Gemeinde (“Community”) Index takes up the majority of this book. The index includes maps and cross-references for each parish, its county, date of oldest available records, and time periods for which records are present. The index notes which entries have a civil records office. Full contents are listed below.
Table of Contents
Foreword and Introduction
Preface and Acknowledgements
Section I – Historical Orientation
Section II – Bibliography
Section III – General Helps
- Archives and Societies
- Stadtkreise (City Districts)
- Landkreise (New County’s) Index
- Case Studies
Section IV – General Maps
Section V – 1:300,000 Maps
Section VI – Gemeinde Index
Section VII – Supplementary Index
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