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Online Sources

• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)

British Overseas Subjects

• UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Sudan, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Sudan, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Sudan, index and images, ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in Sudan

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

Sudan 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.

Immigration into Sudan

• From the 19th century, the entirety of Sudan was conquered by Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty.
• It was under Egyptian rule that Sudan acquired its modern borders, and began the process of political, agricultural, and economic development.
• In 1881, nationalist sentiment in Egypt led to the Orabi Revolt, weakening the power of the Egyptian monarchy, and eventually leading to the occupation of Egypt by the United Kingdom. Egyptian sovereignty in Sudan would henceforth be largely nominal, as the true power in both Egypt and Sudan was now the United Kingdom. In reality, Sudan was effectively administered as a Crown colony.
• On 1 January 1956, Sudan was duly declared an independent state. South Sudan became independent in 2011.
• Aside from being a refugee-generating country, Sudan also hosts a large population of refugees from other countries. According to UNHCR statistics, more than 1.1 million refugees and asylum seekers lived in Sudan in August 2019. The majority of this population came from South Sudan (858,607 people), Eritrea (123,413), Syria (93,502), Ethiopia (14,201), the Central African Republic (11,713) and Chad (3,100).

Emigration From Sudan

• Sudanese from the African nation of Sudan and the new independent country of South Sudan, which are inhabited by the mostly Christian Dinka and Nuer peoples.
• Many Sudanese of both countries immigrated into Europe, esp. the UK and scattered across the Middle East.
• There has been substantial growth of Sudanese in the US and Canada, esp. in the Midwest and Central States.
• There are areas of resettlement of tens of thousands of (many Southern) Sudanese refugee children known as the Lost Boys of Sudan in the 1990s and 2000s.

Records of 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.

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