Emigration

Sources:

Allgemeine Auswanderungszeitung. Germany: Rudolstadt.

Kamphöefner, W. D., Helbich, W. and Sommer, U. (1991). News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Walker, M. (1964). Germany and the Emigration , 1816-1885. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Wegge, S. A. (1998). Chain migration and information networks: evidence from nineteenth-century Hesse-Cassel. The Journal of Economic History 58, PP. 957-86.

    • Wegge, S. A. (1999). To part or not to part: emigration and inheritance institutions in mid-19th century Germany. Explorations in Economic History 36, pp. 30-55.

Wegge, S. A. (2001). A Historical Perspective on Female Migrants: Motivations and Strategies of Nineteenth-Century Hessians. In Pam Sharpe (ed.), Women > Gender and Labour Migration : Historical and Global Perspectives. London: Routledge.

Wegge, Simone A. "Occupational self-selection of European emigrants: Evidence from nineteenth-century Hesse-Cassel." In: European Review of Economic History. Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 2002) pp. 365-394.

Emigration Database(s):

    • Enter a surname in this search engine from the Hessen Archives: Hessen online. R 21 B is the archive number for emigration. Search also on the word "Emigration" .To see a large list of emigrants to America and other places from Darmstadt do a "Search" in above index. Type in the following: Archives Identifier: HstAD then the archive number R 21 B. This will bring up a list of Auswanderung Nachwiese. Click on Navigator to see a list of A-Z emigrants. :You must scroll through many pages of each letter to get the full list. For example, on the letter "H" there are over 306 pages to search through to see the full list of emigrants.