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==Offices and Archives to Contact== | ==Offices and Archives to Contact== | ||
==Finding the Town of Origin in | ==Finding the Town of Origin in Belarus== | ||
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in | If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Belarus, see [[Belarus Finding Town of Origin|'''Belarus Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | ||
== | ==Belarus Emigration and Immigration== | ||
<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | ||
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 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. | ||
[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | [[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | ||
==Immigration into | ==Immigration into Belarus== | ||
*In 1242, modern-day Belarus joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Incorporation into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania resulted in an economic, political and ethno-cultural unification of Belarusian lands. Of the principalities held by the Duchy, nine of them were settled by a population that would eventually become the Belarusians. | *In 1242, modern-day Belarus joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Incorporation into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania resulted in an economic, political and ethno-cultural unification of Belarusian lands. Of the principalities held by the Duchy, nine of them were settled by a population that would eventually become the Belarusians. | ||
==Emigration From | ==Emigration From Belarus== | ||
*White Russian diaspora is named for the '''Russians and Belarusians''' who left Russia (the USSR 1918–91) in the wake of the 1917 October Revolution and Russian Civil War, seeking to preserve pre-Soviet Russian culture, the Orthodox Christian faith, It includes exiled former Communist party members. | *White Russian diaspora is named for the '''Russians and Belarusians''' who left Russia (the USSR 1918–91) in the wake of the 1917 October Revolution and Russian Civil War, seeking to preserve pre-Soviet Russian culture, the Orthodox Christian faith, It includes exiled former Communist party members. | ||
*The millions of Russian émigré and refugees found live in '''North America (the U.S. and Canada)''', Latin America with '''a sect of Pryguny or Molokans settled in Guadalupe Valley, Baja California in Mexico''', even more went to Europe '''(The UK, Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and former Yugoslavia)''', some to east Asia '''(China and Japan)''', south Asia '''(India and Iran)''' and the Middle East '''(Egypt and Turkey).''' <ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#R, accessed 5 August 2021.</ref> | *The millions of Russian émigré and refugees found live in '''North America (the U.S. and Canada)''', Latin America with '''a sect of Pryguny or Molokans settled in Guadalupe Valley, Baja California in Mexico''', even more went to Europe '''(The UK, Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and former Yugoslavia)''', some to east Asia '''(China and Japan)''', south Asia '''(India and Iran)''' and the Middle East '''(Egypt and Turkey).''' <ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#R, accessed 5 August 2021.</ref> | ||