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If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Italy, see [[Italy Finding Town of Origin|'''Italy Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Italy, see [[Italy Finding Town of Origin|'''Italy Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | ||
==Italy Emigration and Immigration== | ==Italy Emigration and Immigration== | ||
<span style="color: | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country.</span><br> | ||
Italy used to be a country of mass emigration, from the late 19th century until the 1970s. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of the '''Italian diaspora''', approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year. Today, large numbers of people with full or significant Italian ancestry are found in '''Brazil (25 million), Argentina (20 million), US (17.8 million), France (5 million), Venezuela (2 million), Uruguay (1.5 million), Canada (1.4 million), and Australia (800,000)'''.<ref>"Demographics of Italy: Modern Italy and immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Modern_Italy_and_immigration, accessed 19 April 2021.</ref> | Italy used to be a country of mass emigration, from the late 19th century until the 1970s. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of the '''Italian diaspora''', approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year. Today, large numbers of people with full or significant Italian ancestry are found in '''Brazil (25 million), Argentina (20 million), US (17.8 million), France (5 million), Venezuela (2 million), Uruguay (1.5 million), Canada (1.4 million), and Australia (800,000)'''.<ref>"Demographics of Italy: Modern Italy and immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Modern_Italy_and_immigration, accessed 19 April 2021.</ref> | ||
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|<span style="color: | |<span style="color:DarkViolet">The better option is to look for records about the ancestor in the '''country of destination, the country they immigrated into'''. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.</span> | ||
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