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| | ==Online Records== |
| | '''Search under both "Siam" and "Thailand".''' |
| | *'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($) |
| | *'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel%20%26%20migration&sid=999 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($) |
| | *'''1892-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyPlace=siam&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1368704&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924] Search results for Siam |
| | *[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] |
| ==Background== | | ==Background== |
| Thai nationals make up the majority of Thailand's population, 95.9% in 2010. The remaining 4.1% of the population are Burmese (2.0%), others 1.3%, and unspecified 0.9%. Increasing numbers of migrants from neighboring Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as from Nepal and India, have pushed the total number of non-national residents to around 3.5 million as of 2009, up from an estimated 2 million in 2008, and about 1.3 million in 2000. Some 41,000 Britons and 20,000 Australians live in Thailand.<ref>"Thailand", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand#Modernisation_and_centralisation, ccessed 30 June 2021.</ref> | | Thai nationals make up the majority of Thailand's population, 95.9% in 2010. The remaining 4.1% of the population are Burmese (2.0%), others 1.3%, and unspecified 0.9%. Increasing numbers of migrants from neighboring Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as from Nepal and India, have pushed the total number of non-national residents to around 3.5 million as of 2009, up from an estimated 2 million in 2008, and about 1.3 million in 2000. Some 41,000 Britons and 20,000 Australians live in Thailand.<ref>"Thailand", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand#Modernisation_and_centralisation, ccessed 30 June 2021.</ref> |
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| ==Expatriates in Thailand== | | ==Expatriates in Thailand== |
| *The largest foreign community are the '''Burmese, followed by the Cambodians and Laotians.''' | | *The largest foreign community are the '''Burmese, followed by the Cambodians and Laotians.''' |
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| |<span style="color:DarkViolet">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.</span> | | |<span style="color:DarkViolet">One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the '''country of destination, the country they immigrated into'''. See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for '''major''' destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Category:Emigration_and_Immigration_Records '''Category:Emigration and Immigration Records'''.] </span> |
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