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*[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose Estonia under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". | *[https://immigrantships.net/index.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] Choose a volume and then choose Estonia under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival". | ||
===Occupation Records | === Occupation Records === | ||
The first Soviet occupation 1940–1941, the German occupation 1941–1944, and the second Soviet occupation 1944–1991. | The first Soviet occupation was from 1940–1941, followed by the German occupation of 1941–1944, and the second Soviet occupation 1944–1991. | ||
*[https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-1.pdf Museum of Occupations, Soviet Occupation Political Arrests, Memento 2005]. Index. | *[https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-1.pdf Museum of Occupations, Soviet Occupation Political Arrests, Memento 2005]. Index. | ||
*'''1945-1953''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-8-3.pdf 1945-1953, Name List of Persons Deported from Estonia] | *'''1945-1953''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-8-3.pdf 1945-1953, Name List of Persons Deported from Estonia] | ||
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*'''1940-1990''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-7.pdf Museum of Occupations, Memento 1996, Political Arrests in Estonia, 1940-1990, Deported, Arrested, Murdered]. Index. | *'''1940-1990''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-7.pdf Museum of Occupations, Memento 1996, Political Arrests in Estonia, 1940-1990, Deported, Arrested, Murdered]. Index. | ||
*'''1940-1988''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-8-1.pdf Museum of Occupations, Memento 1998, Political Arrests in Estonia, Additional Lists, 1940-1988]. Index. | *'''1940-1988''' [https://www.memento.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Memento-Raamat-8-1.pdf Museum of Occupations, Memento 1998, Political Arrests in Estonia, Additional Lists, 1940-1988]. Index. | ||
== | ==Finding the Town of Origin == | ||
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Estonia, see [[Estonia Finding Town of Origin]] for additional research strategies. "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. | |||
== Emigration == | |||
When Estonia was invaded by the Soviet Army in 1944, large numbers of Estonians fled their homeland on ships or smaller boats over the Baltic Sea. Many refugees who survived the risky sea voyage to Sweden and/or Germany later moved from there to Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and/or Australia. | |||
Also, with the June deportation of 1941 and March deportation of 1949, the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonians to Siberia. Some of these refugees and their descendants returned to Estonia after the nation regained its independence in 1991. The Russian Empire displaced a fairly high number of Estonians into exile, maybe the number of descendants (the 3.5 million doesn't include Estonian sub-groups: the Chudes, Livonians, Setos and Voros in neighboring lands of Russia, Latvia and Lithuania. There is no way to know the corrected number of Estonians, unless to count 100,000 dual nationals in the former USSR or the number of expatriates in the EU countries, especially Finland.<ref>Wikipedia Contributors, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#E List of diasporas], accessed 3 June 2021.</ref> | |||
== Records In the Destination Nations == | |||
{{Tip|Look for records about the ancestor in the country they immigrated to.}} See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found in the [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Category:Emigration_and_Immigration_Records Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]. | |||
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*[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[United States Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
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*[[Lithuania Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Lithuania Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
*[[Latvia Emigration and Immigration]] | *[[Latvia Emigration and Immigration]] | ||
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==References== | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Estonia]][[Category:Emigration and Immigration]] | [[Category:Estonia]][[Category:Emigration and Immigration]] | ||