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Emigration Germany to Australia in 1956 - how can I find more info

Emigration Germany to Australia in 1956 - how can I find more info

Posted: 7 Aug 2014 10:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello all,

this morning somebody provided this info:

From Australian National Archives (record search)
KUHOFF Erwin Heinz born 31 July 1930 - German - travelled per ship SKAUBRYN departing in 1956

How can I find out if that man travelled to Australia alone or with a relative or friend? Are emigration records online? He died in Orbost, Gibbsland, VIC on 3 Nov 1986.
Would there be a chance to find any info on a marriage or children, about his profession or anything else?

Any help is greatle appreciated.

Gaby (German researcher)

Re: Emigration Germany to Australia in 1956 - how can I find more info

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 4:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Aug 2014 4:37AM GMT
Dear Gaby,

To order digital copies from the National Australian Archives check the instructions on teh web page here:
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/using/order/index.aspx

You will need to pay for the digitisation of records. Immigration documents can give you a lot of information. However it appears that this is probably just a shipping list which would at least tell you if he were travelling with someone else.

This is the name search page. The National Archives provides an index on line but only digitises information if you pay them to do so. To see the digitised documents you will need to register to obtain a username and password.
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/NameSear...

You could try contacting the East Gippsland Historical Society to see what searches they can do for you. they might be able to take a picture of the gravestone.
http://www.egfhg.org.au/

For surviving family you could try and search the Australian White pages telephone directory:
http://www.whitepages.com.au/

You need to enter a location: try Orbost, Victoria or just Victoria.

For historical newspaper records try searching TROVE which is the website of the National Library of Australia. This is the advanced search page:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y

This is the Victorian Birth Death Marriage website for historical records. I am not sure if a death date of 1986 is too recent to be indexed on this site. However there is at least one death record for Kuhoff noted. Vic BDM requires that you pay (using credit card) 99cents per apge of results from the index. This is just an index and does not give full details. You can order digital copies (about AUD$30 per certificate) on line and the link for download delivered to you in a very short period of time. Australian genealogy can be very expensive!
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=ge...

Re: Emigration Germany to Australia in 1956 - how can I find more info

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 4:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Gaby,
One more link to Ozships:
This is an archived website that is no longer operationsl. It may have some useful infomration:
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24884/20130425-0000/www.ozship...

Re: Emigration Germany to Australia in 1956 - how can I find more info

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 4:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi,

thank you so much for taking your time to provide all that helpful info and links. I'll look at all of them. As the US son of that Erwin Heinz Kuhoff has no money at all, his sister will have to pay for any records. So I'll forward your info to her. She is a native speaker and can ask for the records and look at the links as well.

Thanks again on behalf of Ricky nee Kuhoff adopted by US military people from Germany in 1956.

Gaby
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