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==How to Find the Records==

===Online Resources===

*'''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://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62195/ Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews]

*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose France under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".

===Offices and Organizations to Contact===

In addition to their usefulness in determining where an emigrant lived in the nation before leaving, these records can help you construct family groups. If you don't find your ancestor, you may find emigration information about neighbors of your ancestor. People who lived near each other in France often settled together in the nation where they emigrated to.

==Finding the Town of Origin in France==

*'''1722''' Alsatian colonies established in the Holy Roman Empire '''(Austria-Hungary)'''.

*'''1764 to 1786''' Alsatians colonize '''Russia, Ukraine, and Banat'''.

*'''1789 to 1791''' About 500,000 refugees flee the '''French Revolution''' for neighboring nations and the Americas. About half later returned.  

*'''1804 to 1832''' Additional Alsatians emigrate to '''Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Banat'''.

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Several French Canadian sources mention the French home parish of an individual or his parents, for example:  

*[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include French immigrants

===Algeria===

====Online Records====

====Algeria Background====

'''French Colonization of Algeria:''' Under the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French invaded and captured Algiers in 1830. Historian Ben Kiernan wrote on the French conquest of Algeria: "By 1875, the French conquest was complete. The war had killed approximately 825,000 indigenous Algerians since 1830." French losses from 1831 to 1851 were 92,329 dead in the hospital and only 3,336 killed in action."

ed 1 May 2021.</ref>

===Australia===

====Australia Background====

*Many Australians with French ancestry are descended from Huguenot refugees.  

*The largest post-war increase in French migration to Australia came during the 1960s and 1970s; unlike many other European countries, France did not establish a migration scheme in the immediate post-war period due to '''chronic underemployment''', despite Australia seeing the French as some of the most desirable immigrants to obtain during that era.

*Since that time, there has only been a small flow of French immigrants to Australia. Many people in the French-Australian community now originate from '''French overseas territories, especially New Caledonia'''.<ref>"French Australians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Australians, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref>

===Basque Diaspora===

*The Basques are a people who live between the Bay of Biscay and the Pyrenees Mountains. They are currently to be found in France, in the so called "North Basque Country" or Pays Basques, and in Spain in the so called "South Basque Country" or Pais Vascos. There is also a considerable Basque Diaspora, particularly in Latin America and the USA. The Basque diaspora is the name given to describe people of Basque origin living outside their traditional homeland on the borders between Spain and France. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economic and political reasons, with substantial populations in '''Colombia, Argentina and Chile with those of Basque ancestry in the hundreds of thousands; Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala and Uruguay (an estimated 5,000 to 50,000 descendants), Canada, and the United States'''.

===Brazil===

====Online Records====

*[[Brazil Emigration and Immigration]]

====Brazil Background====

====Online Records====

*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/793324-redirection Grandes familias chilenas : descendientes de ingleses, franceses e italianos (Great Chilean families: descendants of English, French and Italians)], e-book. Biographies of prominent immigrants to Chile, and some of their descendants.

====Chile Background====

*There are 800,000 descendants of the French in Chile today.

*Most of French immigrants settled in the country between 1875 and 1895. Between October 1882 and December 1897, 8,413 Frenchmen settled in Chile, making up 23% of immigrants (second only after Spaniards) from this period. In 1863, 2,650 French citizens were registered in Chile. At the end of the century they were almost 30,000. <ref>"French Chilean", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Chilean, accessed 9 July 2021.</ref>

===Cuba===

====Cuba Background====

*The first wave of French immigrants to arrive in Cuba were fleeing the '''Haitian Revolution''' and the new governmental administration of Haiti after independence was declared. This immigration reached its peak between 1800 and 1809, when more than twenty-seven thousand French of all social classes arrived in the eastern part of Cuba. Many of them emigrated to the city of Santiago de Cuba, which had neither sidewalks nor paved streets, and lacked drinking water, supplies and dwellings for the refugees.

===Mexico===

====Mexico Background====

*French nationals make up the '''second largest European immigrant group''' in Mexico, after Spaniards.

===New Caledonia===

====New Caledonia Online Records====

====New Caledonia Background====

*New Caledonia  is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

===Puerto Rico===

====Puerto Rico Online Records====

*'''1815-1845''' {{RecordSearch|1919700|Puerto Rico Records of Foreign Residents, 1815-1845}} at FamilySearch, images [[Puerto Rico, Records of Foreign Residents - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use This Collection]]

====Puerto Rico Background====

=== Russia  ===

====Russia Online Records====

*[http://www.odessa3.org/about.html Odessa3: Germans from Russia] Some emigrants from Alsace-Lorraine are included in Germans from Russia records.

*[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include French immigrants

*'''1720-1734''' [http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/recherche.php?territoire=LOUISIANE IREL French Overseas Civil Registration for Louisiana, 1720-1734]

====United States Background====

==For Further Reading==

=== Published Emigration Records  ===

Lists of emigrants are often published. These usually focus on the emigrants from one town, department, or region. An