Bahamas Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

 * 1817-1834 Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1822-1834 (1817-1834 for Bahamas), at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
 * 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
 * 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
 * British Civil Service Evidence Of Age, Bahamas, index ($)


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Bahamas, index and images, ($)


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Bahamas, index and images, ($)


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Bahamas, index and images, ($)

National Archives
Department of Archives P.O. Box SS-6341 Nassau, N.P., Bahamas

Telephone: (242) 393-2175/393-2855 FAX: (242) 393-2855 Email: doarcustomerservice@bahamas.gov.bs
 * Website
 * Looking Back: A Genealogical Guide

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

Bahamas 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 to Bahamas
As a colony of the British Empire, Bahamas was the destination of British government administrators, shipping and trading merchants, and community settlers, and their families.