Welcome to the "Association pour la Mémoire de l'Émigration"

Pyrenean emigration through the centuries

Basque, Bearnais and Bigourdans, they left their native pyrenean french South-West to emigrate to Quebec, California, Louisiana, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Chile... when they didn't settle in Andalusia, North Africa or Australia...

Our site provides information and research leads for anyone interested in the history of Pyrenean emigration to the Americas and the rest of the world.

Our magazine “Partir” also contains many articles related to this phenomenon, which we invite you to browse through on this site...

Consult our sections and don't hesitate to contact us!

Thanks to you, we're helping to enrich our collective memory and renew ties with the emigrant branch of our families.