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=== Online Records === | === Online Records === | ||
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=jordan Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at | *'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=jordan Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Jordan | ||
*'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/?event=_jordan_5121 All Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971] at Ancestry, index | *'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/?event=_jordan_5121 All Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971] at Ancestry, index & images. ($) | ||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-births-and-baptisms?country=jordan British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Jordan ], index | *[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-births-and-baptisms?country=jordan British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Jordan ], index & images ($) | ||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-births-and-baptisms?country=jordan British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Jordan ], index | *[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-births-and-baptisms?country=jordan British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Jordan ], index & images ($) | ||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials] | *[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | ||
==Finding the Town of Origin in Jordan== | ==Finding the Town of Origin in Jordan== | ||
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*Since 2010, over 1.4 million '''Syrian''' refugees have fled to Jordan to escape the violence in Syria, the largest population being in the Zaatari refugee camp. The Zaatari refugee camp contains a population of 80,000 '''Syrian refugees''', the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world. | *Since 2010, over 1.4 million '''Syrian''' refugees have fled to Jordan to escape the violence in Syria, the largest population being in the Zaatari refugee camp. The Zaatari refugee camp contains a population of 80,000 '''Syrian refugees''', the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world. | ||
*In 2007, there were up to 150,000 Assyrian Christians; most are '''Eastern Aramaic speaking refugees from Iraq'''. | *In 2007, there were up to 150,000 Assyrian Christians; most are '''Eastern Aramaic speaking refugees from Iraq'''. | ||
*'''Kurds''' number some 30,000, and like the Assyrians, many are '''refugees from Iraq, Iran and | *'''Kurds''' number some 30,000, and like the Assyrians, many are '''refugees from Iraq, Iran and Türkiye'''. | ||
*Descendants of '''Armenians''' that sought refuge in the Levant during the 1915 Armenian genocide number approximately 5,000 persons, mainly residing in Amman. | *Descendants of '''Armenians''' that sought refuge in the Levant during the 1915 Armenian genocide number approximately 5,000 persons, mainly residing in Amman. | ||
*A small number of '''ethnic Mandeans''' also reside in Jordan, again mainly '''refugees from Iraq'''. | *A small number of '''ethnic Mandeans''' also reside in Jordan, again mainly '''refugees from Iraq'''. | ||
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==Emigration From Jordan== | ==Emigration From Jordan== | ||
There are thousands of Jordanians living in the '''United Arab Emirates'''. As of 2009, their population was estimated at 250,000, an increase from 80,000 in 2003, making them one of the largest Jordanian diaspora communities both worldwide and in the Persian Gulf region and also form the second largest community of non-citizen Arabs in the UAE after the Egyptians. Most Jordanians live in Dubai and the capital, Abu Dhabi.<ref>"Jordanians in the United Arab Emirates", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanians_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 15 July 2021.</ref> | ===United Arab Emirates=== | ||
*There are thousands of Jordanians living in the '''United Arab Emirates'''. As of 2009, their population was estimated at 250,000, an increase from 80,000 in 2003, making them one of the largest Jordanian diaspora communities both worldwide and in the Persian Gulf region and also form the second largest community of non-citizen Arabs in the UAE after the Egyptians. Most Jordanians live in '''Dubai and the capital, Abu Dhabi'''.<ref>"Jordanians in the United Arab Emirates", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanians_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 15 July 2021.</ref> | |||
===United States=== | |||
*The history of the Jordanian immigration to the United States is relatively recent. The first identifiable wave of immigration from Jordan to the United States occurred after the Second World War (1945). | |||
*Those first Jordanians settled in '''Chicago, (especially in the Near West and Southwest Sides sections), New York City, and the Southwest and West Coast states (i.e. California)'''. | |||
*Over 5,000 Jordanians arrived to the United States in the 1950's. In the mid 1960s, due to U.S. immigration laws and the Six-Day War of 1967 in Jordan, the number of Jordanians who emigrated to the United States exceeded 11,000 people. At this time, the majority chose to settle in '''Western cities and in the southwest of the country, except the wealthy Jordanians who felt more comfortable in the suburbs of large cities'''. | |||
*Then in the 1970s, a '''civil war broke out in Jordan''', causing 27,535 Jordanians emigrate to the United States. | |||
*In the 1980s, annually emigrated around 2,500 Jordanian to the USA. By then, the Jordanian community in the United States had grown at a rapid pace, and it already represented a large population. A substantial number of Jordanians who settled in the United States at this time were '''war refugees'''. The total number of Jordanian immigrants from 1820 to 1984 was 56,720. | |||
*Currently, the '''New York City Metropolitan Area''', notably including '''Paterson, New Jersey''', attracts the highest number of legal Jordanian immigrants admitted to the United States. The Little Ramallah community of South Paterson in New Jersey is home to a rapidly growing Jordanian immigrant population. '''Yonkers, New York''' has a sizeable Jordanian population. The Jordanian American community in '''Washington, DC''' held a candlelight vigil after the death of King Hussein. '''Chicago''' also maintains, even today, a large Jordanian population.<ref>"Jordanian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_Americans, accessed 15 Juuly 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Jordanian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Jordanian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||
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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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*[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[ Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[United Arab Emirates Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[ Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Australia Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[ Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Pakistan Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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