Search of inmigrants and passengers in the CEMLA database
The CEMLA Data Base contains information of passenger and immigrant
arrival at the port of Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1930.
Available information* contains: Family name, first name, country of
birth, marital status, age at arrival, profession, religion, port of
shipment, ship’s name, date of arrival (sometimes also members of family
travelling together) Town or province of origin are registered only and
partially as from 1923. With some exceptions in 1910, we have no
information on town or province of birth for immigrants arrived until 1922.
If you require information regarding arrival of someone at the port of
Buenos Aires, please do as follows:
1) Send an email to base@cemla.com asking whether the requested last names are found in our data base.
2) You will receive an email reply. Only if the requested last names are
contained, please pay 17€ to the following account:
SENDING MONEY FROM ITALY
Banca Intesa SPA
Filial n. 499 – Roma Monteverde
CIN: P
ABI: 03069
CAB: 05078
Numero CUENTA: 204 / 27
Addressed to: Casa Generalizia della Congregazione dei Missionari di San
Carlo – Scalabriniani
Via Ulisse Seni 2 - 00153 Roma
* * *
SENDING MONEY FROM OUTSIDE ITALY
Banca Intesa SPA
Filiale n. 499 – Roma Monteverde
IBAN: IT60 P030 6905 0780 0000 0020 427
BIC: BCITITMM729
Numero cuenta: 204 / 27
Addressed to: Casa Generalizia della Congregazione dei Missionari di San Carlo – Scalabriniani
Via Ulisse Seni 2 – 00153 Roma
Reference: P. Livio Stella
Telephone: 0039 06 58.33.11.35
Fax: 0039 06 580.38.08
e-mail: liviostella@scalabrini.org
segreteria@scalabrini.org
PLEASE MAIL OR E-MAIL TO US A COPY OF THE DEPOSIT SLIP TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS TO BE SEARCHED FOR (UP TO THREE DIFFERENT LAST NAMES) TO EITHER
CEMLA
AV. INDEPENDENCIA 20
C1099AAN BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA
and indicate precisely an address where we can mail (or e-mail) our reply.
In case of an exact match, you will receive by mail Certificado de
Arribo a América (certificate of arrival).
CEMLA is not in position to obtain or deliver birth, marriage or death
certificates nor has access to dates of birth or any document of
immigrants entering Argentina, other than the information contained in
shipping lists.
* depending on the condition of the correspondin lists. Poor
conservation of some lists has made it impossible to recover the
information contained in them.
