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==Online Sources== | ==Online Sources== | ||
*'''1851-1980''' {{RecordSearch|2069829|Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, registros migratorios, 1851-1980}} Dominican Republic, National District, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, immigration records, 1851-1980, index | *'''1851-1980''' {{RecordSearch|2069829|Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, registros migratorios, 1851-1980}} Dominican Republic, National District, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, immigration records, 1851-1980, index & images. | ||
*'''1921-1980''' {{RecordSearch|2069829|Dominican Republic miscellaneous records (República Dominicana, registros varios : COLLECTION RECORD, 1921-1980)}} Miscellaneous records housed at the Archivo General de la Nación in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. These records include residency permit requests, immigration tax exemption requests, passenger arrival and departure lists, and immigration-related correspondence. Also at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9833/ Ancestry. | *'''1892-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyPlace=Dominican%20Republic&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 Dominican Republic | ||
*'''1921-1980''' {{RecordSearch|2069829|Dominican Republic miscellaneous records (República Dominicana, registros varios : COLLECTION RECORD, 1921-1980)}} Miscellaneous records housed at the Archivo General de la Nación in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. These records include residency permit requests, immigration tax exemption requests, passenger arrival and departure lists, and immigration-related correspondence. Also at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9833/ Ancestry] ($) and [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/dominican-republic-miscellaneous-records-1921-1980-image-browse MyHeritage] ($). | |||
*'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ 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. | *'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ 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. | ||
*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose | *[https://www.shipindex.org/ ShipIndex Vessel Research Database] at shipindex.org - index | ||
*[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] | |||
*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose Dominican Republic under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". | |||
==Finding the Town of Origin in Dominican Republic== | ==Finding the Town of Origin in Dominican Republic== | ||
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*During the second half of the twentieth century there were three significant waves of immigration to the United States. (See above.) | *During the second half of the twentieth century there were three significant waves of immigration to the United States. (See above.) | ||
*Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican communities in the United States.<ref>"Dominican Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Americans, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | *Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican communities in the United States.<ref>"Dominican Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Americans, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Dominican Republic Immigration to Puerto Rico==== | |||
*Historically, there has been very high migration between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, not only during the Taino era, but also during the Spanish colonial era up until modern times. | |||
*Many residents of Colonial Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, left for Puerto Rico because of the '''cession of Santo Domingo to France in 1795, the Haitian invasions from 1801 to 1803, and the occupation from 1822 to 1844'''. | |||
*Dominican migration increased sharply after 1961 as a result of political events. | |||
*The height of modern-day Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico was from 1970 to about 2005, when the Puerto Rican economy started to decline, since then its been slowly dying down, with increasing immigration the opposite direction, '''Puerto Ricans moving to the Dominican Republic'''. Though, many Dominicans who moved to Puerto Rico, stayed and started a life there, some Dominicans (and even other Latinos/Caribbeans like Haitians and Cubans) used it as a '''temporary stop-over point to the US mainland, particularly to cities like New York and Miami'''. | |||
*Although, 2010 census estimates put the number of Dominicans living in Puerto Rico at 68,000, there are estimates that put the number as high as 300,000, with many undocumented.<ref>"Dominican Republic Immigration to Puerto Rico", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Dominican Republic 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]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Puerto Rico Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Spain Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|Dominican Republic - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=1199528655|disp=Dominican Republic - Emigration and immigration}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]][[Category:Dominican Republic]] | |||
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