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Resource Guide Listing for
Institute for Migration
and Ancestral Research
(IMAR)

© Copyright 1997-2001, IMAR and FEEFHS


Founded: 1994
Postal Address: Institute for Migration and Ancestral Research
Friedrich-Barnewitz-Str. 3
D-18119 Rostock
Germany
Telephone: 011-49-0381-5196225
e-mail: mecklenburg@imar-mv.com

Background: In the past 100 years more than 220,000 people emigrated from the two duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. They also came from Pomerania. The western part of this region today includes Western Pomerania.

I.M.A.R. helps the descendants of Mecklenburg emigrants to trace the family roots here in Mecklenburg. It is able to locate the origins of the ancestors and searches for local branches of the family.

Mecklenberg record searchers from America and other countries, also send information about their ancestors to IMAR. This is placed into an IMAR data file of Mecklenburg emigrants. As of early 1997 IMAR had more than 5,000 names of emigrants from Mecklenburg-Schwerin and 8,000 names from Mecklenburg-Strelitz for the period from 1835-1862 in its files. The information for Mecklenburg-Schwerin includes the whole period of emigration, which means from the 14th century to the World War II.

IMAR develops and maintains friendly contact with Mecklenburg and Western Pomeranian associations interested in historical emigration. So, it is able to extend the information about the emigration from this region. IMAR has been collecting as it works a bibliograhy dedicated to the problems of Mecklenburg emigration. It will be published, too. They are extracting material from newspapers of the last century and collecting letters of emigrants written to their Mecklenburg relatives.

You may request a search of the Mecklenburg Emigrants Database here in the U.S. by contacting the Immigrant Genealogical Society. You should check the index of surnames in the Database to be sure your surname is included before ordering. Click here:
feefhs.org/igs/imed/igs-imed.html

Institute for Migration and Ancestral Research e.V. website:
http://www.imar-mv.com/
Languages: It is known that IMAR can communicate effectively in German and English.

Services and Fees:
  • Family Genealogy Submittal: We know of no charge for submitting family information.

  • Queries - Checking a specific person or single surname: We know of no charge for checking a specific person or single surname.

  • However there are Suggested Procedures: IGS Article: Back to Your Mecklenburg Roots by Dr. Anja Alert

    IMAR Mecklenburg Emigrant Database

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