Madagascar Emigration and Immigration

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Emigration and Immigration

Online Sources

• 1813-1834 Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 at Ancestry, ($), index and images.
• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for New Zealand
• 1946-1971 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.

French Overseas Subjects

• 1807-1914 French Overseas Civil Registration and Parish Registers, Madagascar, 1807-1914, index and images.
• 1892-1917 French Overseas Civil Registration and Parish Registers, Comoros, 1892-1917, index and images. The Comoros formed a province of Madagascar from 1912 to 1946.

British Overseas Subjects

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Madagascar, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Madagascar, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in Madagascar

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Madagascar, see Madagascar Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Madagascar Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
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.

Emigration From Madagascar

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Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

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For Further Reading

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