
Yli miljoona suomalaista on muuttanut ulkomaille pysyvästi. Osa siirtolaisista on myös palannut takaisin. Suurimmat siirtolaisuuden kohdemaat ovat Ruotsi, Yhdysvallat, Kanada ja Australia. Tämän projektin tarkoituksena on koota yhteen suomalaisten siirtolaisten profiilit Genissä. Olethan tarkkana, ettet lisää siirtolaisten jälkeläisiä projektiprofiileiksi – projekti on vain Suomesta lähteneiden...
Pioneers of Texas Welcome to the Pioneer of Texas Project. Please add profiles that were born or migrated to Texas between the years of 1599 and 1899. The importance of this project is to trace the early settlers of Texas and to be sure everyone is recognized and highlighted by a side project. A few early pioneers are highlighted, but they need assistance adding more profiles of...
Amerikansuomalaiset Projektin tarkoitus Projektin tarkoituksena on yhdistää suomalaisia juuriaan etsiviä amerikkalaisia ja amerikkalaisia sukulaisiaan etsiviä suomalaisia, jakaa tietolähteitä, vinkkejä, jne. Voitte lisätä projektiin kenen tahansa suomalaisia esivanhempia omaavan amerikkalaisen. Amerikka tarkoittaa tässä koko Amerikan mannerta aina Águilan saaresta (joka on etelämpänä kuin Ka...
Return to Lands of Sweden Project Swedish Americans During the 19th-early 20th century about 1.3 millions Swedes left their homes and emigrated to the United States. Purpose of the project The primary purpose of this project is to connect Swedish Americans with American Swedes seeking relatives, roots, sharing information sources, tips, etc. This project covers Swedes who have moved to an...
Inmigración italiana en Argentina La inmigración italiana en Argentina se refiere al movimiento migratorio más numeroso e importante que recibió históricamente la actual República Argentina, superando a aquella de los colonizadores españoles y los descendientes de esa población que se asentó en territorio hoy argentino previamente a la independencia. Los ítalo-descendientes son la mayor comunid...
The idea of this project is to include "all" refugees from the Holocaust who managed to emigrate from Europe to safe countries, and to connect these immigrants to their families in Europe.===Holocaust & Reich Refugees & Emigrés 1933-1945 List of Project Profiles ] Nazi Regime GenocideTimeline , Interactive Timeline The German Nazi persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses i...
This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Michigan, USA. Brief history of Finns in Michigan Finns first arrived in Michigan ’s Upper Peninsula after the Civil War, when a copper mining company recruited them from mines in Norway because of their reputation as hard workers. The Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns during the peak years of migratio...
This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Minnesota, USA . Brief history of Finns in Minnesota Over three hundred years ago the first Finnish immigrants came to North America and more than one hundred years ago the first Finnish settlers came to the upper midwestern States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota (Wasastjerna, 1957). Finns immigrated to Minnesota ...
Croatian immigrants who settled in Tacoma, Washington
Lithuanians began coming to Australia as early as 1830 after the uprising against regime of the Russian Empire. After the WWI Lithuanians from Scotland started moving to Australia and by 1939, there were 1000 Lithuanians in Australia. After WWII aproximately 10 000 Lithuanian refugees were relocated to Australia. This project aims to gather notable people who resided in Australia and were of Li...
Ensimmäiset nimet kerätty valokuvallisista Yhdysvaltojen kansalaisuuspapereista joista koetettu jäljittää henkilöiden jo olemassa olevia Geni profiileja tai puita. Joidenkin osalta tehty uusi - yksittäiset oksat kaipaavat puitaan: 1) Harry on niin vanha, että luultavasti joltain osin hänen lähisukuaan voisi olla jo genissä ? Harry Anderson 2) Maarsin osalta sukutausta on ehkä! selvillä, mu...
Emigration from Norway to the United States of America. This project is about emigrants from Norway to USA. Please also follow Norwegian Ancestry - information Index Links Norwegian-American Settlements in The US From which county in Norway was the emigrants born? Østfold Akershus Oslo Hedmark Oppland Buskerud Vestfold Telemark Aust-Agder Vest-Agder Rogaland H...
This project is for German Immigrants to the United States of America. Only add 1st generation German Americans to this project. German Americans are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy, "German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States accounting for roughly 49 million people and app...
Migration Portal==This portal will function as an umbrella project for all projects on Geni related to migration Projects that can be included: * Related to emigration* Related to immigration* Emigration schemes or organised emigration.* Related to ports of arrival* Related to ports of departure ==What is migration?==Migration is the movement of people from one place in the world to anot...
The purpore of this project is to collect from those Finnish who moved to Australia.
Immigrants From Canada to Florida
Polish Brazilians (Portuguese: polono-brasileiros, Polish: Polonia brazylijska) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Polish ancestry who are aware of such ancestry and remain connected, to some degree, to Polish culture, or Polish-born people permanently residing in Brazil. Also, a Polish Brazilian may have one Polish parent. Polish immigrants began arriving in Brazil in the late 19th centu...
German Immigrants to Florida.
Dutch Brazilians (Portuguese: Neerlando-brasileiro; Dutch: Nederlandse Brazilianen) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Dutch ancestry. Dutch Brazilians are mainly descendants of immigrants from the Netherlands. The Dutch were among the first Europeans settling in Brazil during the 17th century. They controlled the northern coast of Brazil from 1630 to 1654. A significant number of Dutch i...
Azorean immigration in Brazil was encouraged by Portugal's interest in populating the territory of Brazil Colony, an alternative employed to prevent the exploitation of new Portuguese lands by other nationalities. The coming of Azorean immigrants is very linked to the immigration of Portuguese in Brazil. After possession of the land in the new world that belonged to Portugal, it showed no imme...
Spanish Immigrants of Louisiana: This project is for those who immigrated from Spain to Louisiana
In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...
The single largest wave of Croatian immigrants to the United States of America (about 400,000) came between 1890 and 1914. However the return migration to what is today Croatia was high. During this period 50% of migrant Croatians and Slovenes returned to their homeland, at least for a while. The earliest Croatian settlements in the United States were on the Gulf of Mexico and in California. In...
The traditional Polish community in Chicago, Illinois , an organization-rich ethnic settlement that developed in the years after the Civil War, reached maturity and almost complete institutional self-sufficiency before World War I. Polish Chicago, sometimes referred to as “Polonia,” has been shaped by at least three distinct immigration waves. The first and largest lasted from the 1850s to the...
Under construction 3em>= This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = Welcome! This portal is a place to gather and discuss all projects related to the many ethnic groups that make up the United States, today and in the past. We can also discuss best practices for running these projects on Geni; please use the "Discussions" link to the upper right. Note about Language In Germanic languag...