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[https://www.archivoybibliotecanacionales.org.bo/ '''Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia''']<br>

Calle Dalence, 4. <br>

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Tel.: (00 591 ) 46460207<br>

[https://www.archivoybibliotecanacionales.org.bo/ Website]<br>

:*''Ministerio del Interior:'' In 1888, this ministry took charge of the Colonisation section, thus becoming responsible for fostering foreign immigration and promoting the establishment of colonies in Bolivia.

Email: comunicacion@migracion.gob.bo<br>

:*It has several relevant series for this topic such as the census of foreign nationals, family ties, passports, etc.

==Finding the Town of Origin in Bolivia==

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

*The history of the Jews in Bolivia stretches from the colonial period  to the end of the 19th century. In the 19th century, Jewish merchants (both Sephardim and Ashkenazim) came to Bolivia, most of them taking local women as wives and founding families that merged into the mainstream Catholic society. This was often the case in the eastern regions of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando, where these merchants came either from Brazil or Argentina.

*In the colonial period, '''marranos from Spain''' settled in the country. Some worked in the silver mines in Potosi and others were among the pioneers that helped found Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1557. (Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted or were forced to *convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages, yet continued to practice Judaism in secrecy.)

*In 1917, it was estimated that there were only 20 to 25 professing Jews living in the country. By 1933, when the Nazi era in Germany started, there were 30 Jewish families. The first large influx of Jewish immigrants was in the 1930s and there were 7,000 of them estimated at the end of 1942.  

*After World War II, a small number of '''Polish Jews''' came to Bolivia.<ref name="jews">"History of the jews in Bolivia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Bolivia, accessed 17 May 2021.</ref>

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====Bolivian Americans====

====Bolivians in the United Kingdom====

*According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 1,143 people were born in Bolivia, making it the 140th most common birthplace for British residents.The 2011 census recorded 3,618 Bolivian-born residents in England, 24 in Wales, 113 in Scotland and 10 in Northern Ireland. In 2007, community leaders surveyed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that there might have been as many as 25,000 Bolivian-born people in the UK.

*According to an IOM mapping exercise published in 2007, the overwhelming majority of all Bolivians in the United Kingdom '''reside in London'''. According to the report, ''''boroughs with high concentrations of Bolivians included Southwark (mainly in Elephant and Castle, Old Kent Road and Peckham Rye), Haringey (mainly in Seven Sisters and Finsbury Park), Camden, Lewisham and Lambeth (mainly in Vauxhall and Brixton)''''.[9] More affluent Bolivians were reported as tending to gravitate towards '''North London''', while the less affluent lived in Southeast London.Outside of London, other concentrations were identified in '''Newcastle and Edinburgh'''.<ref>"Bolivians in the United Kingdom", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivians_in_the_United_Kingdom, accessed 16 May 2021.</ref>

====Bolivians in Uruguay====

*Many Bolivian-born people live in Uruguay, for a number of reasons. Both countries share the Spanish language; their historical origins are common (part of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate, Spanish Empire); there is no need for special migration documents, and circulation is relatively easy.  

*Uruguay is a very small, quiet country, with wide beaches on the Atlantic Ocean. Some well-off Bolivians choose Uruguay as their holiday destination, a trend that is expected to grow in the near future.

*Other Bolivians of a lower social condition come to Uruguay in search of job opportunities, as part of a big inflow of Latin Americans into Uruguay.

*According to the 2011 Uruguayan census, 377 people who declared Bolivia as their country of birth.<ref>"Bolivians in Uruguay", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivians_in_Uruguay, accessed 16 May 2021.</ref>

====Jewish Emigration====

*During the 1940s, 2,200 Jews emigrated from Bolivia. In the 1990s the community had about 700 members, the Jewish population of Bolivia has remained steady since then.  

*The Jewish community in Bolivia decreased gradually and lacks youth, as they end high school, go to universities abroad, especially in '''Argentina, Brazil, the United States and Israel''', and do not return. <ref name="jews"/>

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