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Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Syria , index and images, ($)

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Syria , index and images, ($)

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in Syria

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

Syria 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.

Immigration to Syria

• There are small ethnic minority groups, such as the Albanians, Bosnians, Georgians, Greeks, Persians, Pashtuns and Russians. However, most of these ethnic minorities have become Arabized to some degree, particularly those who practice the Muslim faith.
• Syria was once home to a substantial population of Jews, with large communities in Damascus, Aleppo, and Qamishii. Due to a combination of persecution in Syria and opportunities elsewhere, the Jews began to emigrate in the second half of the 19th century to Great Britain, the United States, and Israel.

Emigration From Syria

• The largest concentration of the Syrian diaspora outside the Arab world is in Brazil, which has millions of people of Arab and other Near Eastern ancestries. Brazil is the first country in the Americas to offer humanitarian visas to Syrian refugees.
• The majority of Arab Argentines are from either Lebanese or Syrian background.<ref name="syr/">
• The number of Syrians outside Syria is estimated to be from 8 to 13 million, nearly half of the country's population. The UNHCR reports that 4.9 million global refugees in 2015 were Syrian nationals.
  

Populations

Brazil 1,000,000 Turkey 3,611,834 Lebanon 950,334 Jordan 671,148 registered; 1,400,000 estimated Germany 818,500 Argentina 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 Saudi Arabia 500,000 to 2,500,000

Iraq 252,772 Sudan 250,000 Sweden 242،150 United States 187,331 Egypt 132,553 Kuwait 120,000 estimated Greece 88,204

Canada 77,050 Israel 24,800 Austria 18,000 Venezuela 15,632 Australia 13,517 Algeria 10,000 Finland 6,000

Records of Syrian 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.

United States Emigration and Immigration Canada Emigration and Immigration Brazil Emigration and Immigration Turkey Emigration and Immigration Lebanon Emigration and Immigration Jordan Emigration and Immigration Germany Emigration and Immigration

Argentina Emigration and Immigration Saudi Arabia Emigration and Immigration Iraq Emigration and Immigration Sudan Emigration and Immigration Sweden Emigration and Immigration Egypt Emigration and Immigration Kuwait Emigration and Immigration

Greece Emigration and Immigration Israel Emigration and Immigration Austria Emigration and Immigration Venezuela Emigration and Immigration Australia Emigration and Immigration Algeria Emigration and Immigration Finland Emigration and Immigration

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