Guatemala Emigration and Immigration
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Online Sources
- 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 Guatemala under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
Passports
- 1579-1873 Pasaportes, 1579-1873, images
- 1917, 1920-22 Registros de la Legación de España en Centroamérica, Guatemala, images
Finding the Town of Origin in Guatemala
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Guatemala, see Guatemala Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Guatemala 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.
Emigration from Guatemala
Diaspora
A significant number of Guatemalans live outside of their country. The majority of the Guatemalan diaspora is located in the United States of America, with estimates ranging from 480,665 to 1,489,426. Emigration to the United States of America has led to the growth of Guatemalan communities in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island and elsewhere since the 1970s. Below are estimates of the number of Guatemalans living abroad for certain countries:
| Country | 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:USA | 1,070,743 | |||
| Template:MEX | 44,178 | |||
| Template:BLZ | 25,086 | |||
| Template:CAN | 18,398 | |||
| Template:SLV | 9,005 | |||
| Template:ESP | 7,678 | |||
| Template:HND | 4,681 | |||
| Template:FRA | 3,296 | |||
| Template:CRI | 2,699 | |||
| Template:ITA | 2,299 | |||
| Total | 1,205,644 | |||
| Source:DatosMacro.[1] | ||||
Records of Guatemalan 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. |
- United States Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Canada Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Australia Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- New Zealand Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- France Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Brazil Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Argentina Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Mexico Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Venezuela Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans
- Israel Emigration and Immigration – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Guatemalans