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Uruguay Online Sources

• 1509-1599 Catálogo de pasajeros a Indias durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII Lists of passengers from Spain to the New World during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
• 1509-1701 Pasajeros a Indias : libros de asientos Archivo General de Indias. Commerce Section. Lists of passengers to the New World.
• 1888-1980 Uruguay, Passenger Lists, 1888-1980, index.

Uruguay Offices to Contact

The Dirección Nacional de Migración (National Directorate of Migration) is a department of the Ministry of the Interior and is in charge of controlling the entry and stay of foreigners in Uruguay. It has several immigration records from 1920 onwards. To consult them, it is necessary to request it in writing to the agency.

Dirección Nacional de Migración
Central Office
Misiones 1513
Montevideo, Uruguay
Telephone 2030 1800
Citizen Service Center 2030 1804

Instructions for Requesting Access

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General de la Nación de Uruguay (General Archive of Uruguay)
Convención 1474.
11100 Montevideo
Uruguay

Tel.: (00 598 2) 900 7232
E-mail: consultas@agn.gub.uy
Website

The records of entry of passengers between 1829 and 1865 can be found among the documentary collection of the Police of Montevideo. In the reading room of the archive, there is a database to search for passengers in this documentary series.

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Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (National Directorate of Civil Identification) Rincón 665 esq. Bartolomé Mitre. Montevideo
Uruguay
Email
Website

This contains the documentation on all those emigrants who obtained an identification document in Uruguay, which began to be issued after 1912.

Uruguay Records Content

For the FamilySearch Historical Records Collection listed above, the following information may be found:

• First and Last Name of Relative
• Port or Country of Origin
• Gender
• Age
• Occupation
• Marital Status
• Nationality