Nauru Emigration and Immigration

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Online Sources

• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)

Nauru 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 into Nauru

• Settled by people from Micronesia and Polynesia circa 1000 BCE, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century.
• After an agreement with Great Britain, Nauru was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany's Marshall Islands Protectorate for administrative purposes. The Germans ruled Nauru for almost three decades.
• After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
• During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, and was bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. After the war ended, the country entered into United Nations trusteeship. Nauru gained its independence in 1968.
• Japanese troops occupied Nauru on 25 August 1942. The Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk Islands, which was also occupied by Japan. Nauru was finally liberated on 13 September 1945, and arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

Emigration From Nauru

KNOMAD Statistics: <ref>"Nauru", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development

Records of Nauru Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

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.

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