Dominican Republic Emigration and Immigration
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Online Sources
- 1851-1980 Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, registros migratorios, 1851-1980 Dominican Republic, National District, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, immigration records, 1851-1980, index and images.
- 1921-1980 Dominican Republic miscellaneous records (República Dominicana, registros varios : COLLECTION RECORD, 1921-1980) Miscellaneous records housed at the Archivo General de la Nación in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. These records include residency permit requests, immigration tax exemption requests, passenger arrival and departure lists, and immigration-related correspondence. Also at Ancestry.com, index and images, ($).
- 1946-1971 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.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
Finding the Town of Origin in Dominican Republic
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Dominican Republic, see Dominican Republic Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Dominican Republic 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 the Dominican Republic
- Ethnic immigrant groups in the country include:
- West Asians—mostly Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians.
- East Asians, primarily ethnic Chinese and Japanese
- Europeans are represented mostly by Spanish whites but also with smaller populations of German Jews, Italians, Portuguese, British, Dutch, Danes, and Hungarians
- Some converted Sephardic Jews from Spain, part of early expeditions
- Jewish migrants coming from the Iberian peninsula and other parts of Europe in the 1700s
Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations
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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
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: