Rwanda Emigration and Immigration
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Online Sources
British Overseas Subjects
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Rwanda, index & images ($)
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Rwanda, index & images ($)
Rwanda 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 Rwanda
The Kingdom of Rwanda dominated from the mid-eighteenth century. Germany colonizd Rwanda in 1884 as part of German East Africa, followed by Belgium, which invaded in 1916 during World War I. [1]
Emigration From Rwanda
KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 345,800. Top destination countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, France, Zambia, Malawi, Canada, Belgium [2]
Records of Rwanda 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 Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at Category:Emigration and Immigration Records. |
References
- ↑ "Rwanda", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda, accessed August 2021.
- ↑ "Rwanda", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=19, accessed August 2021