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*Almost 350,000 Yemenite Jews live in '''Israel'''. <ref>"Yemeni diaspora", in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_diaspora, accessed 16 July 2021.</ref>
*Almost 350,000 Yemenite Jews live in '''Israel'''. <ref>"Yemeni diaspora", in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_diaspora, accessed 16 July 2021.</ref>


==Records of       Emigrants in Their Destination Nations==
==Records of Yemeni Emigrants in Their Destination Nations==
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Revision as of 23:36, 15 July 2021


Yemen Wiki Topics
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How to Find the Records[edit | edit source]

Online Sources[edit | edit source]

Offices and Archives to Contact[edit | edit source]

Finding the Town of Origin in Yemen[edit | edit source]

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

Yemen 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 Yemen[edit | edit source]

Emigration From Yemen[edit | edit source]

  • In the United Kingdom there are between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis. An estimated 10,000 Yemenis in Birmingham, making about 1% of the city's population.
  • Other Yemenis also reside in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the former USSR. Over 20,000 Yemenis reside in the United States, and around 3,000 live in Italy.
  • A smaller number of modern-day Pakistanis are of Yemeni descent, their original ancestors having left Yemen for the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia over four centuries ago.
  • Due to the conflict in Yemen, many have migrated to the northern coasts of Djibouti and Somalia. In 2017, Djibouti was home to over 40,000 Yemeni refugees.
  • Almost 350,000 Yemenite Jews live in Israel. [1]

Records of Yemeni 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.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Yemeni diaspora", in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_diaspora, accessed 16 July 2021.