Czechia Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

 * Immigrants from Moravia, index
 * 1847-1869 Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.


 * 1938-1945 All Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 - at Ancestry, index.
 * 1939-1941 Czechoslovakia, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1939-1941 - at Ancestry, index.
 * Czechoslovakia, Jewish Applications for Social Welfare After World War II - at Ancestry, index.
 * 1939-1946 Czechoslovakia, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1946 - at Ancestry, index.
 * 1942-1943 Riga, Latvia, Austrian, Czech, and German Jews, 1942-1943 - at Ancestry, index. Names of about 800 Jewish forced laborers from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
 * 1943-1945 Czechoslovakia, Jews Deported to Terezin and Poland, 1943-1945 - at Ancestry, index.

Czech Immigration Passenger Lists (not online)
and at (FHL book 973 W3bL) can be a useful source of genealogical information. There are 9 volumes:
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume I Galveston 1848-1861, 1865-1871 New Orleans 1848-1879
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume II Galveston 1896-1906 New Orleans 1879-1899
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume III Galveston 1907-1914
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IV, e-book. New York 1847-1869.
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume V New York 1870-1880
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VI New York 1881-1886, Galveston 1880-1886
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VII New York 1887-1896
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume VIII Baltimore 1834-1879
 * Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IX Baltimore 1880-1899

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

Czech Republic 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.