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Online Sources

• 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".

Finding the Town of Origin in Dominican Republic

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Dominican Republic, see Dominican Republic Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Dominican Republic Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One 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.

United States Emigration and Immigration Canada Emigration and Immigration England Emigration and Immigration France Emigration and Immigration Germany Emigration and Immigration Russia Emigration and Immigration Australia Emigration and Immigration

Jordan Emigration and Immigration Syria Emigration and Immigration Lebanon Emigration and Immigration Saudi Arabia Emigration and Immigration Egypt Emigration and Immigration Chile Emigration and Immigration Mexico Emigration and Immigration

For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Dominican Republic - Emigration and immigration