Available for the first time the Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia
consolidated into one index and a set of linked pdf files, the full 21
publications in the Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia previously released in
both book form and microfiche.It covers all available departure lists for
ships from Hamburg to Australia and New Zealand during the period of 1850-1879,
and information such as name, former place of residence, age, occupation, ship,
destination and departure years are recorded for more than 40,000 emigrants. The
index allows direct searching, using QFHSdatasearch, on name, year and other
details, with search results directly linked to the relevant pdf file of the
original publications.
This CD is a marvellous, unique research resource for the high proportion of
Australians and New Zealanders with German ancestry and those with a more
general interest in migration from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Switzerland, Italy and other European countries. Not only does it cover all the
information from the original Hamburg listings, much of which is unavailable on
corresponding arrival lists, but also includes, in the pdf files, information on
the ship and reports extracted from contemporary newspapers. Many of the Hamburg
lists are written in old German script, presenting special problems to
researchers who are not conversant with the script or language, and each of the
original publications represents countless hours of painstaking transcription
and translation, checking and cross-checking names and places, and matching
against other sources where available.
QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases
and developed by the Queensland Family History Society Inc. This version
features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting,
wildcard searches and, when applicable, links between search results and images
held in pdf files of the source records.
