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• 1686-1855 Ansiedlerakten, 1686-1855, images. Card file and documents relating to settlers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Böhmen, Moravia to the Banat (mostly) and other regions of Hungary during the 17th-19th century.
• 1792-1918 Paßregister, 1792-1918 Austro-Hungarian passports
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Hungary
• 1750-1805 Auswandererkartei der Deutschen nach Ungarn und Rußland, 1750-1805 (Emigration index of Germans in Hungary and Russia, 1750-1805).
• 1750-1945 Kartei der Auswanderer nach Ungarn, 1750-1945 (Index of emigrants to Hungary, 1750-1945).
• 1750-1943 Kartei der Ansiedlungsorte, 1750-1943 Index cards, the first group arranged alphabetically by village, which is cross-referenced to names of individual emigrants. Includes village name, jurisdictional unit, and province with "see" references to names of immigrants. The second group is arranged alphabetically by province or country, and by surname. Places of settlement include the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Poland and Italy.
• 1750-1943 Namenskartei von Siedlern in Russland und Rücksiedler nach Deutschland, 1750-1943 Index cards, arranged alphabetically by governmental jurisdiction, village, and then surname, of German immigrants residing in Russia. Many cards provide birth and death dates, marriage dates, names of spouses, the number of children, when and from where they emigrated, and other genealogical information. A separate set, arranged alphabetically by former Russian town of residence, indicates those who moved back to Germany, but gives no information on where they eventually settled in Germany. Some cards are out of order, and include localities in Hungary, Rumania, Poland, and other countries outside of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at FamilySearch, index - How to Use This Collection
• 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.
• FindMyPast Immigration & Travel Records with any event in Hungary.
• Les colonies lorraines et alsaciennes en Hongrie Lorraine and Alsatian (French) colonies in Hungary.
• Geschichte der Deutschen in den Karpathenländern History of German settlements in Eastern Europe, principally near the Carpathian Mountains. Includes the former Austrian principalities of Galicia and Bukowina, now in Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Ukraine; Romania, and Hungary.

Finding the Town of Origin in Hungary

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

Hungary 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.

Hungarian Diaspora

• Hungarian diaspora is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Hungarian population located outside current-day Hungary.
• There are two main groups of the diaspora.

• The first group includes those who are indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists to their homeland and live outside Hungary since the border changes of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon of 1920. The victorious forces redrew the borders of Hungary so that it runs through Hungarian majority areas. As a consequence, 3.3 million Hungarians found themselves outside the new borders.
• The other main group is the emigrants who left Hungary at various times (such as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956).

• Hungarian immigration patterns to Western Europe increased in the 1990s and especially since 2004, after Hungary's admission in the European Union. Thousands of Hungarians from Hungary sought available work through guest-worker contracts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Spain and Portugal.

Distribution by Country

Neighbor countries of Hungary--Hungarians who live outside Hungary since the 1920 border changes

• Romania 1,227,623
• Slovakia 458,467
• Serbia 253,899
• Ukraine 156,600
• Austria 90,000
• Croatia 14,048
• Slovenia 10,500

Other Countries (with links to more detailed Wikipedia articles)

• United States 1,563,081 Hungarian Americans
• Canada 348,085 Hungarian Canadians
• Israel 200,000 to 250,000 Hungarian Jews
• United Kingdom 200,000 to 250,000 Hungarians in the United Kingdom
• France 200,000 to 250,000
• Germany 207,000 Hungarians in Germany
• Brazil 80,000 Hungarian Brazilians
• Russia 76,500
• Australia 69,167 Hungarian Australians
• Chile 50,000 Hungarians in Chile
• Argentina 40,000 to 50,000 Hungarian Argentines

Records of Hungarian 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 Israel Emigration and Immigration England Emigration and Immigration France Emigration and Immigration Germany Emigration and Immigration Brazil Emigration and Immigration Russia Emigration and Immigration Australia Emigration and Immigration Chile Emigration and Immigration Argentina Emigration and Immigration For links to Wiki Emigration and Immigration articles for additional countries with smaller Hungarian populations, see Category:Emigration and Immigration Records.

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