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Philippines Research Outline |
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Helps For Using This Research Outline
References To The Family History Library Catalog
References To Other Family History Library Publications
Map Of The Philippines
Records At The Family History Library
The Family History Library Catalog
Archives And Libraries
Libraries In The Philippines
Foreign Libraries
Computer Networks And Bulletin Boards
Biography
Cemeteries
Locating Cemeteries And Cemetery Records
Census
Searching Census Records
Church Records
Civil Registration
Court Records
The Court System
Emigration And Immigration
Spanish Emigration Records
Foreign Travel And Foreign Service Records
Filipino Immigration To The United States
Gazetteers
Modern Place-names
Historical Place-names
County Origins And Boundary Changes
Genealogy
Major Collections And Databases
Family Histories
Printed Compilations
Manuscript Collections
History
Philippine History
Local Histories
Land And Property
Language And Languages
Maps
Finding The Town On A Map
Atlases
Military Records
Spanish Colonization Period Military Records
Modern Records
Minorities
Chinese
Spaniards
Americans
Muslims
Native Minorities
Names, Personal
Given Names
Notarial Records
Probate Records
Other Records
For Further Reading
Basic Research Strategies
Important References
Bibliographies
Comments And Suggestions
EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION If your ancestors emigrated from or immigrated to the Philippines, there may be a record in the Records Management and Archives Office or in the Commission on Immigration and Deportation, Department of Foreign Affairs. These records generally provide at least:
Sometimes they give information about:
The Spanish administration kept fairly detailed emmigration records. The Records Management and Archives Office has a small collection of passports (pasaportes), deportations (deportados), and foreign passports (pasaportes de estranjeros). However, Chinese passports were often recorded separately under Chinese passports (pasaportes de chinos).
Most of these records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library. To find deportation records, see the Family History Library Catalog, Locality section. Look for the county and then under “Emigration and Immigration.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has records about people who emigrated, immigrated, or gave service in consulates and embassies in foreign countries. The address of the ministry is:
Some Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States as early as the mid-1700s, but most immigrants came after 1900. Changes in U.S. agricultural techniques on the West Coast and in Hawaii created a high demand for labor. While persons from many countries were recruited to work in Hawaiian sugarcane plantations, Filipinos were the best source of labor because the Philippines was under U.S. administration for the first few decades of the twentieth-century. Between 1900 and 1930 over 63,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawaii and over 45,000 Filipinos immigrated to the mainland. Two excellent histories of immigration to the United States are:
Mangiafico Luciano. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns of Filipino, Korean, and Chinese Settlement in the United States, New York: Praeger, 1988. (FHL book 973 W2mL; computer number 0489924.)
Bautista, Veltisezar. The Filipino Americans, from 1763 to the Present: Their History, Culture, and Traditions. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Bookhaus Publishers, 1998.
The Family History Library has several other good reference books that describe early Filipino immigration to the United States:
Saito, Shiro. The Overseas Filipinos: A Working Bibliography. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1974. (FHL book 959.9 A3t; computer number 0000355.)
Lasker, Bruno. Filipino Immigration to Continental United States and to Hawaii, vol. 31. New York: Arno Press, 1969. (FHL book 973 B4ai; fiche 6101684; computer number 0264017.)
Alcantara, Ruben R., Nancy S. Alcantara, and Cesar S. Wycoco. The Filipinos in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, 1972. (FHL book 996.9 F23a; film 1697759 item 7; computer number 0254173.)
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