Azerbaijan Emigration and Immigration

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Online Sources

• 1850-1934 Auswandererlisten, 1850-1934 (Hamburg passenger lists) at FamilySearch, images.
• 1850-1934 Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 at Ancestry, ($) index and images.
• 1855-1924 Hamburg Passenger Lists, Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934 at Ancestry, ($) images.
• Hamburg, Germany Emigrants at FindMyPast, ($) index.
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in Azerbaijan

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Azerbaijan, see Azerbaijan Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Azerbaijan 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 Azerbaijan

• The Azerbaijani diaspora are the communities of Azerbaijanis living outside the places of their ethnic origin: Azerbaijan and the Iranian region of Azerbaijan.
• According to Ethnologue, there were over 1 million Azerbaijani-speakers of the north dialect in southern Dagestan (Russia), Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as of 1993.
• Other sources, such as national censuses, confirm the presence of Azerbaijanis throughout the former Soviet Union.
• The number of Azerbaijanis around the world is estimated about 30-35 million people, only 9,961,396 of which are in Azerbaijan, and another 13 million in Iran.

Records of Azerbaijani 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.

Russia Emigration and Immigration Iran Emigration and Immigration Armenia Emigration and Immigration Estonia Emigration and Immigration Georgia (country) Emigration and Immigration Kazakhstan Emigration and Immigration Kyrgyzstan Emigration and Immigration

Turkmenistan Emigration and Immigration Uzbekistan Emigration and Immigration Emigration and Immigration Emigration and Immigration Emigration and Immigration Emigration and Immigration Emigration and Immigration

For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

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