Auswandererbriefe
Contributors: Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935-; Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Publisher: MC
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [Dortmund, Germany]
Language: ger
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: German Americans -- Correspondence; German Americans -- History -- 19th century; German Americans -- Genealogy; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Other titles: Bochumer Auswandererbriefsammlung (BABS); Bochum emigrant letter collection
Description: Reproduces about 6700 German emigrant letters from the United States written between 1820 and 1930, collected by Wolfgang Helbich. About 85% are in the form of Xerox copies of the originals, 10% are in transcription form only (the originals have been lost), and 5% are the original letters. Biographical research and background studies on the letter writers is reproduced along with the letters, including parish registers, emigration lists, judicial records, passenger lists, manuscript census, city directories, county histories, platbooks, etc.
Notes: German and English.
Filmed from the originals in the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Includes indexes.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.