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Switzerland

Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

• 1348-1798 Switzerland, Basel City, Local Citizenship Requests, 1348-1798 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only
• 16th-17th Century Einwandererkartei, 16.-17. Jahrhundert Alphabetical Index of Huguenots immigration from France, the Netherlands and Switzerland to the Pfalz (Palatinate), Germany.
• 1650-1800 Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800 and Huguenots to the Palatinate and Germany, e-books, 6 volumes.
• 1704-1717 Swiss and German Mennonite immigrants from the Palatinate, 1704-1717, e-book
• 1709-1776 Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners: an Aid to Mennonite Family Research Item 15 on film. Vol. 1 contains chronological lists of Swiss Mennonite refugees from Cantons of Berne, Zürich and Aargau who came to the Netherlands, German Palatine and Holstein regions between 1648 and 1711; passenger lists of Mennonite emigrants to Pennsylvania colony between 1709-1776; and genealogies of Swiss Mennonite families covering the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
• 1727-1776 A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712, e-book
• 1734-1752 A list of eighteenth-century emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen to the American colonies, 1734-1752
• 1817-1866 Registres des émigrés, 1817-1866, (Alsace emigration index) Card index to emigration records of Europeans traveling through the Alsace region of France. This index also includes some Swiss emigrants.

• 1837-1857 Registres des passeports à l'étranger, 1837-1857 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Switzerland
• Switzerland, Schaffhausen Genealogies and City Directories - FamilySearch Historical Records

Offices and Archives to Contact

If the canton of origin of a pre-1848 emigrant is known, one can contact the appropriate State Archive for further information. To obtain information concerning emigrants who left after 1848, contact:

Schweizer Bundesregierung
Bundeshaus
CH-3000 Bern, Switzerland

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