Cabo Verde Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

From FamilySearch Wiki
No edit summary
m (Text replacement - "sidebar}}''" to "sidebar}}<br>''")
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Cape Verde-sidebar}}'''[[Cape Verde Genealogy|Cape Verde]]'''
{{Cape Verde-sidebar}}<br>'''[[Cape Verde Genealogy|Cape Verde]]'''


=== Emigration/Immigration ===
=== Emigration/Immigration ===

Revision as of 13:06, 11 May 2016

Cabo Verde Wiki Topics
Flag of Cabo Verde.png
Beginning Research
Record Types
Cabo Verde Background
Local Research Resources


Cape Verde

Emigration/Immigration[edit | edit source]

Research use: Provides information on the origins for many persons being taken elsewhere. Also provides information on the large emigré community.

Record type: Passenger lists.

General: Lists of those arriving, primarily from West Africa, and/or departing for other destinations within the Portuguese Empire, Europe, or elsewhere. Also, lists of slaves and their destinations.

Time period: 1600-present.

Contents: Names of passengers, often names of family members and family relationships, place of origin or embarkation, destinations; ships’ manifests of slave cargoes arriving primarily from Guinea-Bisseau and their destinations.

Location: Nation Archive; some are located in the National Archive of Portugal in Lisbon.

Population coverage: 60-80% percent of those arriving and departing.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Cape Verde,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1992-1999.