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-Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigration) or coming into (immigration) Italy. These sources are usually found as passenger lists. The information in these records may include the names of the emigrants; their ages, occupations, and destinations; and often their places of origin or birthplaces.
-Records were created when individuals emigrated from or immigrated into Italy. Separate records document an ancestor’s arrival in his destination country. This section discusses:
-*Finding the emigrant’s town of origin.
-*Emigration from Italy including the historical background of Italian emigration.
-*Records of Italian emigrants in their destination countries.
-*Immigration into Italy.
-Unfortunately, few Italian emigration records exist. You can, however, find many records in the United States of Italians who moved there. Some South American countries also have records of Italian immigrants.
 == Finding the Emigrant’s Town of Origin  ==
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 Besides going to the United States, many Italian emigrants went to Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Australia, and Canada.
-=== Passenger Lists  ===
+ant’s Town of Origin" in this section.
-During the 1800s, most Italian emigrants left through the ports of Le Havre, Marseilles, and Nice in France, and Genova, Napoli, and Palermo in Italy. Although some of the records of departures from these Italian ports exist, they are usually shipping lists and do not list passengers. Each individual shipping company maintained its own lists, and most lists have been lost or destroyed. However, other sources of emigration information are described under "Records of Italian Emigrants in Their Destination Countries" and "Finding the Emigrant’s Town of Origin" in this section.
+==== Passport Records (passaporti)  ====
-=== Other Records of Departure  ===
-In 1869 the Italian government began requiring people to obtain passports to move within Italy. However, the United States and many other countries did not require passports, so many Italians left Italy without an official passport.
+In 1869, the Italian government began requiring people to obtain passports to move within Italy. However, the United States and many other countries did not require passports, so many Italians left Italy without an official passport.
 The Italian government used passports to make sure young Italian men did not emigrate to avoid the military draft. Consequently, police were responsible for passports. Passports are still issued today by the questura (head of the internal police) in each province. Although you may write to request passport information, the archives where these records are kept are not open to the public. You will generally find passports among the personal papers of the emigrant’s family in his or her destination country.
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 Some passport applications have survived the years and are currently being digitizied and indexed by the [http://immigrants.byu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project].&nbsp;Although it is an ongoing project, you may do a name search on the information indexed to this date.
-==== Passport Records (passaporti)  ====
-Research use: Contain useful lineage linking information, relationships; may contain birth and marriage information. Can frequently link between place of origin and place of emigration.
-Record type: Records of passports authorized on a provincial basis (registri delle vidimazioni dei passaporti per la provincia)
-Time period: 1800's to present (a few earlier)
 Contents: Names of passengers holding passport or migration permits and the names of their parents, places of residence or origin, dates of migration, destinations, relationships with other passengers or party members, and vital information such as birth dates, marriage dates, children, etc.
-Location: Notarial offices / state archives.
-Population coverage: 10 to 30% where records exist. The actual coverage of the population cannot be calculated. Reliability: Good.
-Accessibility: These are usually housed at the state archives and are accessible to academics and serious researchers by request.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Italy,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref>
-=== Records of Italian Emigrants in Their Destination Countries  ===
-Sometimes the best sources for information about your emigrant ancestor are found in the country to which he or she emigrated. Emigrants from Italy in the earliest period of emigration settled in New Orleans, New York, and along the eastern seaboard. Later, emigrants settled in New York, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, and elsewhere.
-Records in the places where emigrants settled sometimes provide the town of origin and other information. To learn about these records, use handbooks, manuals, and FamilySearch Wiki articles for those areas.
 === United States  ===