IMMIGRANTS, GERMAN INFLUENCE, EARLY SETTLER

• Two complete teaching units from Max Kade G-A center on Emigration and Immigration.
• Willi Paul Adams The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience - discussion of reasons for immigration.
• Medieval Germany and the Causes of German Emigration.
• Germans In America: comprehensive online Exhibit from the Library of Congress.
• Email discussion w/German partners on Immigration/Migration. Transatlantisches Klassenzimmer.
• Excellent resources and articles from Germans from Russia Heritage Collection in ND.
• G-A Statesman and MO Senator Carl Schurz and other Forty-eighters played a large role in MO history and the abolition of slavery.
• Read about German soldiers in the Civil War.
• Germany Discovers America: an annotated bibliography of G-A travel narratives 1800-1918 plus links.
• The German influence on American food culture, restaurants, recipes and businesses in the US.
• The German influence on the American auto industry.
• The Turners in America and the 1848 Revolution.
• Peopling St.Louis: history of immigrant populations in St. Louis.
• G-A communities : Pennsylvania Dutch, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Hermann, MO, Arcola, IL, etc.
• Bukovina Society of America: immigrants from modern-day Ukraine and Romania.
• Canadian Passenger Lists. National Archives of Canada.
• Anti-immigrant (German, Irish) sentiment in the late 1800's. G-A internment during WW2.
• Ellis Island pages.
• Article from Die Welt: Erinnerung an deutsche Einwanderer in den USA wieder populaer: Gedenktafeln in Ohio." A German perspective. Article about Cincinnati and Don H. Tolzmann.

GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES

• Genealogy research tips from GER-RUS.
• Treasure Maps Genealogy plus tips on deciphering handwriting, research tips, how to do tombstone rubbings, etc.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: world-wide passenger lists
• Research Center Lower Saxons in the USA. Extensive site in English and German.
• Identifying German Names. What does my name mean?
• German Genealogy: world-wide, emigration and immigration, family histories, societies, etc.
• Genealogy pages, German historical societies and organizations from the Max Kade G-A center.
• The Fed. of E. European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) has extensive resources.
• ROOTS-L Genealogy Page​: libraries, archives, databases, museums, institutions, internet, etc.
• Equally immense are USGenWeb and C. Howell's Genealogy Page: 15,000 links!
• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
• JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy