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==Online Records== | ==Online Records== | ||
*''' | *'''1884-1937''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61857/ U.S., Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing lists, 1884-1937] at Ancestry - index & images ($); Includes name, nationality, race, age, birthdate, employment date. | ||
* | *'''1905-1937''' {{RecordSearch|2193241|United States, Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing lists, 1905-1937}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing lists - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use This Collection]]; index & images; Includes name, nationality, race, age, birthdate, employment date. ' | ||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas- | *[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] | ||
*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Passenger Manifests] at ISTG; Choose a volume and then choose Panama under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". | |||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-births-and-baptisms?country=panama British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Panama] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | |||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-banns-and-marriages?country=panama British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Panama] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | |||
*[http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | |||
==Panama Emigration and Immigration== | |||
<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | |||
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. | |||
[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | |||
*The overwhelming majority of Panamanians are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups (predominantly Spaniards) with native Amerindians who are indigenous to Panama's modern territory. | *The overwhelming majority of Panamanians are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups (predominantly Spaniards) with native Amerindians who are indigenous to Panama's modern territory. | ||
*'''Afro-Panamanians''' played a significant role in the creation of the republic. The descendants of the Africans who arrived during the colonial era are intermixed in the general population or live in small Afro-Panamanian communities along the Atlantic Coast and in villages within the Darién jungle. | *'''Afro-Panamanians''' played a significant role in the creation of the republic. The descendants of the Africans who arrived during the colonial era are intermixed in the general population or live in small Afro-Panamanian communities along the Atlantic Coast and in villages within the Darién jungle. | ||
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*White Panamanians form 6.7%, with the majority being of '''Spanish descent'''. Other ancestries includes '''Dutch, English, French, German, Swiss, Danish, Irish, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian'''. There is also a sizable and very influential '''Jewish community'''. | *White Panamanians form 6.7%, with the majority being of '''Spanish descent'''. Other ancestries includes '''Dutch, English, French, German, Swiss, Danish, Irish, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian'''. There is also a sizable and very influential '''Jewish community'''. | ||
*The first '''Chinese''' immigrated to Panama from southern China to help build the Panama Railroad in the 19th century. There followed several waves of immigrants whose descendants number around 50,000. Starting in the 1970s, a further 80,000 have immigrated from other parts of China as well.<ref>"Panamanians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamanians#Black, accessed 13 June 2921.</ref> | *The first '''Chinese''' immigrated to Panama from southern China to help build the Panama Railroad in the 19th century. There followed several waves of immigrants whose descendants number around 50,000. Starting in the 1970s, a further 80,000 have immigrated from other parts of China as well.<ref>"Panamanians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamanians#Black, accessed 13 June 2921.</ref> | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*[https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/fall/panama.html Looking for an Ancestor in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1914] | |||
*[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00021182/00001 The Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal] | |||
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|Panama - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=80528315|disp=Panama - Emigration and immigration}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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