Digitizing historical passenger lists Holland America Line to the new world now finished!

[Alphen]

There has been a thread about the project of digitizing the historical passenger lists of Holland America before, but I could not find it.

 

Today in the news in Holland, it was reported that the 3 year project by mostly volunteers has now finished and that all of the lists are now digitally available to be searched for ancestors. You can enter a search for family names and can see the actual original page in the list, which have been digitized.

The lists are for travelling from Rotterdam to New York and vice versa, in the period 1900 till 1969.

The original website is not in English, but google translate may help, there is a direct google translate button on the bottom of the website.

 

Link to the website; https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/zoek-en-ontdek/passagierslijsten/zoeken-op-passagiers/?mizig=231

 

Edited January 18, 2022 by Alphen

[OlsSalt]

Thanks for this.

 

Passed it on to a friend who had come with his family on the Veendam in the late 1930's - they were fifth generation Germans but also Jewish and felt the time was now to leave their home and come to America.  

 

He said they were unable to take any money with them, so his father bought first class tickets and new wardrobes of very expensive clothes before they departed with literally only the clothes on their backs.  He was only five and remembers mostly his mother stayed in bed sea sick for the entire voyage.  His life had a successful and happy ending in America but his trip on the Veendam and what it meant to his family history remains alive and vivid.

 

He had saved original cruise documents which he copied, and I was able to pass them on to the Veendam staff since they kept an historic display case of early cruise documents by Guest Services.  Of course, the Veendam is now gone to Holland America but living memories of the ship by its former names still resonate. 

[Sir PMP]

Wow, great story and fascinating to look at that list..

[TiogaCruiser]

Thank you for this. I’m hoping I might be so fortunate to find a relative there. So far, I’ve only found a few leaving Galicia, Poland via Bremen.

[woodinville cruisers]

I found the date for my family moving back to US.  I knew the year and ship but not the date.

Thanks.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

3 hours ago, Alphen said:

There has been a thread about the project of digitizing the historical passenger lists of Holland America before, but I could not find it.

 

Today in the news in Holland, it was reported that the 3 year project by mostly volunteers has now finished and that all of the lists are now digitally available to be searched for ancestors. You can enter a search for family names and can see the actual original page in the list, which have been digitized.

The lists are for travelling from Rotterdam to New York and vice versa, in the period 1900 till 1969.

The original website is not in English, but google translate may help, there is a direct google translate button on the bottom of the website.

 

Link to the website; https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/zoek-en-ontdek/passagierslijsten/zoeken-op-passagiers/?mizig=231

 

Thanks for sharing.

[FlaMariner]

I'm wondering if they will one day be publishing my passage on the Rotterdam VII across the Atlantic in 2021!!!!!

 

(wonder what privacy laws say about that?)

[woodinville cruisers]

How can I look at a specific page?  When I expand it it's too blurry to read.

[VermeulT]

This is amazing.  I'm looking up my mother's trips now.

[Skorpora]

Fantastic! My DH's family came over in 1955. I will take a look at the site to search for them. Thank you.

[OVgirl]

Very happy to see this comp!eted. I can now see the passenger list for Leerdam II, which wasn't even available at Piet 21 in Halifax. Hopefully they will a also be able to add more details to the immigration records there.

[Alphen]

8 hours ago, woodinville cruisers said:

How can I look at a specific page?  When I expand it it's too blurry to read.

I had some trouble too, but when opening a page, there is also a download link, which enables you to download the JPEG file, to watch on your computer.

[amyr]

This is fantastic.  I was able to find the passage my Mom, Dad, Grandfather and I took on Ryndam from Rotterdam to (I think) Halifax in 1966.  We weren't emigrating, just traveling home on long vacation from being expats in the Middle East.  At first I only saw my father and grandfather's names, but next to my father's name was 2 and 1/2.  Grandpa's passage was $350 and it was $846 for Mom, Dad, and me.  It was interesting to see the different currencies people used to pay.  It seemed to be mostly Guilders, but lots of USD, some Deutschmarks, some Swiss Francs, French Francs, Pounds Sterling, and a coupIe other I didn't recognize.  

 

I never knew the date, but this list pinpointed it for me, and so my mother must have been just pregnant with my sister.  Here we are embarking:

[strickerj]

Thanks for sharing this! I don't know anyone who immigrated this way (my father came to Canada from Europe by air in 1956), but as my wife works digitizing and maintaining Civil War documents and artifacts for a private collector, I certainly know how much work this is. Many thanks to the volunteers who preserve our history!