Spain Emigration and Immigration

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The Immigrant Ancestors Project (free online database) includes lists of emigrants from Spain.

Sometimes it is possible to guess where an immigrant originated through surname distribution maps.

Emigrantes Riojanos a América (1880-1936) This site has a database of people who emigrated from the province of La Rioja. It can be [searched by locality if you know the name of the town in La Rioja where your ancestor was from.

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:


 * Spain, Consular Records of Emigrants (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Spain, Cadiz Passports (FamilySearch Historical Records)