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Emigration and Immigration

Slovakia became an independent state on 1 January 1993 after the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Prior to then, record collections for Czechoslovakia cover Slovakia also.

Online Records

• 1847-1869 Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.
• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($). Search with locations Czechoslovakia, Bohemia, and Moravia.
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Czechoslovakia
• 1939-1941 Czechoslovakia, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1939-1941 - at Ancestry, index. ($)
• Czechoslovakia, Jewish Applications for Social Welfare After World War II - at Ancestry, index.($)
• 1939-1946 Czechoslovakia, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1946 - at Ancestry, index.($)
• 1943-1945 Czechoslovakia, Jews Deported to Terezin and Poland, 1943-1945 - at Ancestry, index.($)
• 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.

Czech Immigration Passenger Lists (not online)

Czech Immigration Passenger Lists by Leo Baca, at various libraries (WorldCat) and at (FHL book 973 W3bL) can be a useful source of genealogical information. There are 9 volumes:

• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume I Galveston 1848-1861, 1865-1871
  New Orleans 1848-1879
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume II Galveston 1896-1906 New Orleans 1879-1899
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume III Galveston 1907-1914
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume V New York 1870-1880
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VI New York 1881-1886, Galveston 1880-1886
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VII New York 1887-1896
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VIII Baltimore 1834-1879
• Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IX Baltimore 1880-1899

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