Daily AncestorAuswanderung
Auswanderung is German for "emigration"; an Auswanderer is an emigrant, and ausgewandert nach Amerika means "emigrated to America."
Emigration files and indexes in German archives are often headed Auswanderung, and a list of Auswanderer is a list of people who left. A pastor sometimes wrote ausgewandert, or nach Amerika, beside a name in the church book when a family left.
Do not confuse it with Einwanderung, immigration into a country. An American descendant is looking for the Auswanderung from the German side and the immigration or passenger records on the American side.
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