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Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Romania
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Romania
• 1942 Romania, Passengers on the Struma, 1942 at Ancestry; index only ($)
• 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 your country under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
• Immigrant Ancestors Project

Immigration to Romania

Top fifteen immigrant populations by 2017: Estimate immigrants to Romania (as of mid-2017, including refugees):]

Moldova - 151,000 Italy - 51,000 Spain - 39,000 Ukraine - 16,000 Bulgaria - 14,000

France - 9,000 Germany - 9,000 Hungary - 8,000 Serbia (with Kosovo) - 8,000 Turkey - 8,000

Russia - 7,000 United Kingdom - 7,000 Greece - 6,000 China - 5,000 United States - 4,000 Syria - 3,000 Emigration from Romania Romanians, who emigrated for the first time in larger figures between 1910 and 1925, and left in mass after the fall of communist regime in Romania in 1989, are found today in large numbers in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Belgium, the U.K., Ireland, China, Japan, Australia, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina'. Today there are over 10 million people of Romanian descent outside the country. References