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Revision as of 23:12, 7 August 2021

Rwanda Wiki Topics
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Beginning Research
Record Types
Rwanda Background
Local Research Resources

Online Sources[edit | edit source]

British Overseas Subjects[edit | edit source]

Rwanda Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

"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.

Immigration into Rwanda[edit | edit source]

The Kingdom of Rwanda dominated from the mid-eighteenth century. Germany colonizd Rwanda in 1884 as part of German East Africa, followed by Belgium, which invaded in 1916 during World War I. [1]

Emigration From Rwanda[edit | edit source]

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 345,800. Top destination countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, France, Zambia, Malawi, Canada, Belgium [2]

Records of Rwanda Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png 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.

the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, France, Zambia, Malawi, Canada, Belgium

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Rwanda", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda, accessed August 2021.
  2. "Rwanda", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=19, accessed August 2021