Uruguay Emigration and Immigration
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Uruguay Online Sources
- 1509-1599 Catálogo de pasajeros a Indias durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII Lists of passengers from Spain to the New World during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
- 1509-1701 Pasajeros a Indias : libros de asientos Archivo General de Indias. Commerce Section. Lists of passengers to the New World.
- 1888-1980 Uruguay, Passenger Lists, 1888-1980, index.
Uruguay Offices to Contact
The Dirección Nacional de Migración (National Directorate of Migration) is a department of the Ministry of the Interior and is in charge of controlling the entry and stay of foreigners in Uruguay. It has several immigration records from 1920 onwards. To consult them, it is necessary to request it in writing to the agency.
Dirección Nacional de Migración
Central Office
Misiones 1513
Montevideo, Uruguay
Telephone 2030 1800
Citizen Service Center 2030 1804
General de la Nación de Uruguay (General Archive of Uruguay)
Convención 1474.
11100 Montevideo
Uruguay
Tel.: (00 598 2) 900 7232
E-mail: consultas@agn.gub.uy
Website
- The records of entry of passengers between 1829 and 1865 can be found among the documentary collection of the Police of Montevideo. In the reading room of the archive, there is a database to search for passengers in this documentary series.
Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (National Directorate of Civil Identification)
Rincón 665 esq. Bartolomé Mitre. Montevideo
Uruguay
Email
Website
- This contains the documentation on all those emigrants who obtained an identification document in Uruguay, which began to be issued after 1912.
Finding the Town of Origin in Uruguay
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Uruguay, see Uruguay Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Uruguay 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.