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=== Online Records ===
=== Online Records ===
*'''1890-1901''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/509621?availability=Family%20History%20Library Auswanderung nach Brasilien und Venezuela, 1890-1901] Civil records relating to the migration to Brazil and Venezuela of inhabitants of Bromberg, Posen, Germany
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=venezuela Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Venezuela
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel+%26+migration&sid=101&destinationcountry=venezuela Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Venezuela
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*[https://www.venarbol.net/en/liens/recherche-dans-les-pays-demigration Italian Emigration Sites, including Venezuela]
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/526164-confederate-exiles-in-venezuela?viewer=1&offset=0#page=48&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= Confederate exiles in Venezuela], e-book
 
==Background==
*Due to the Venezuelan refugee crisis, in 2017, 22,000 new '''Venezuelan refugees''' sought shelter in Brazil. By mid-2019, over 168,000 Venezuelans were living in Brazil.<ref>"Immigration to Brazil", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Brazil, accessed 18 May 2021.</ref>
*People from Venezuela who live outside of their territory live mainly in the '''United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and most of South America'''. Most of them arrived to escape from the military dictatorship of the 1950s and the political repressions in the 1960s.
*There is also a growing number of Venezuelans in '''Canada'', almost all of them working for the oil industry after the 2002 strike.
*Since the arrival of President Hugo Chávez, a significative growing number of '''young Venezuelans''' are fleeing their country in search of better living standards and work opportunities.
*More recently, since the crisis worsening in 2012, another wave of Venezuelans have emigrated, including people from all age groups and socioeconomic statuses.<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#V, accessed 3 June 2021.</ref>


In the genealogical periodical GENEALOGIE for the year 1975, Heft 8, page 629 the author Renate Hauschild-Thiessen has extracted a list of German emigrants bound for Venezuela and other South American countries between the years 1850 and 1865. The periodical article is available through the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2gf.  
In the genealogical periodical GENEALOGIE for the year 1975, Heft 8, page 629 the author Renate Hauschild-Thiessen has extracted a list of German emigrants bound for Venezuela and other South American countries between the years 1850 and 1865. The periodical article is available through the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2gf.  

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  • Due to the Venezuelan refugee crisis, in 2017, 22,000 new Venezuelan refugees sought shelter in Brazil. By mid-2019, over 168,000 Venezuelans were living in Brazil.[1]
  • People from Venezuela who live outside of their territory live mainly in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and most of South America. Most of them arrived to escape from the military dictatorship of the 1950s and the political repressions in the 1960s.
  • There is also a growing number of Venezuelans in 'Canada, almost all of them working for the oil industry after the 2002 strike.
  • Since the arrival of President Hugo Chávez, a significative growing number of young Venezuelans are fleeing their country in search of better living standards and work opportunities.
  • More recently, since the crisis worsening in 2012, another wave of Venezuelans have emigrated, including people from all age groups and socioeconomic statuses.[2]

In the genealogical periodical GENEALOGIE for the year 1975, Heft 8, page 629 the author Renate Hauschild-Thiessen has extracted a list of German emigrants bound for Venezuela and other South American countries between the years 1850 and 1865. The periodical article is available through the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2gf.

Also, in the same periodical the author Karl Werner Klüber listed passengers from Baden (Kaiserstuhl) bound for Venezuela in 1843 where they founded the village of Tovar. Later people from Elsass, Hessen and Mecklenburg joined this group. The list of  145 men, 96 women and 117 children is accessible through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, call number 943 B2gf in GENEALOGIE, year 1965, Heft 5, page 538.

  1. "Immigration to Brazil", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Brazil, accessed 18 May 2021.
  2. "List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#V, accessed 3 June 2021.