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Emigration and Immigration

Online Sources[edit | edit source]

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 Trinidad
1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Tobago
United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records

Offices and Archives to Contact[edit | edit source]

Finding the Town of Origin in Trinidad and Tobago[edit | edit source]

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

Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago[edit | edit source]

Emigration From Trinidad and Tobago[edit | edit source]

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

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.

For Further Reading[edit | edit source]

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

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References[edit | edit source]

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 *'''1892-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyPlace=trinidad&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1368704&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924] Search results for Trinidad
 *'''1892-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyPlace=tobago&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1368704&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924] Search results for Tobago
-*'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ 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.
 *[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records]]