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Dutch emigration to America 1800-1950==This project Dutch emigration to America refers to Americans who are of full or partial Dutch heritage.An estimated 4.5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in Michigan, California, Montana, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. In 2013 1....
Welcome to the USA Portal! The USA Portal is here to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in the United States, or elsewhere in the world but with American roots. We encourage everyone with links in the United States to communicate and explore a common ancestry. In this portal you will find sources and discussions that will help you with your research. In case you have a partic...
This project is part of the Mormonism Portal . Mormon Americans are people from the United States who have ancestral or religious roots in the Latter-day Saints movement. Approximately 6.5 million Americans are practicing Mormons, while at least one million others have roots in the Mormon community. Anthropologists and demographers increasingly consider Mormons to be a distinct ethnic group in...
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans ) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American . Black and African Americans con...
Finnish-Americans===The purpose of the project== The primary purpose of the Project is to combine Finnish Americans with American Finns seeking relatives, roots, sharing information sources, tips, etc. This project covers the Finns who have moved to America, anywhere from Águilan Islet up to Cape Columbia . The project welcomes all the American Finns or the Finnish with (assumed) family across ...
Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican heritage. In 2019, Mexican Americans comprised 11.3% of the U.S. population and 61.5% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States; they make up 53% of the total population of foreign-born Hispanic Americans and 25% of the total foreign-born population. The United States is home ...
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...
Tracing the roots of the Mennonites and Hutterites who moved from German speaking lands, including modern day Germany, Austria, Hungary and Poland to Russia (modern day Ukraine), where they lived for about a century before coming to America and Canada. Includes direct ancestors shortly before the move to Russian controlled lands (1650) and direct ancestors up to about 1950 of those who arrived ...
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Kauhajoelta lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. ===Kauhajoen projektit===*Paikkakunta Kauhajoki, Etelä-Pohjanmaa *Paikkakunta Kauhajoki, Etelä-Pohjanmaa *Siirtolaiset ...
Latino or Hispanic Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino. Many Latino American performers have achieved international fame.= List of notable Latino American entertainers =* Desi Arnaz , Cuban-born actor, musician, producer, best known for his role as Ric...
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...
Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizen but are of Lithuanian descent or were born in Lithuania. Lithuanians began coming to the US as early as 17th century. Until about 1870s immigrants from the Lithuanian territory were mostly noble. Towards the end of 19th century peasant Lithuanians started to settle in the mining areas of the US such as Pennsylvania and other industrial areas lik...
American Jews , also known as Jewish Americans , are American citizens of the Jewish faith or Jewish ethnicity. The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, and their U.S.-born descendants. A minority from all Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a number o...
Danish Americans ( Dansk-amerikanere ) comprise Americans 1) with ancestral roots from Denmark or 2) Danish people who emigrated to and reside in the United States. The Danish American population numbers about 1,500,000, with about 30,000 using the Danish language at home.Danes first began setting in the present United States in the mid-1600s. The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the ne...
Swiss Americans are Americans of Swiss descent, including those whose ancestors spoke Swiss German, Swiss French, Swiss Italian, and Romansh. Today, there are approximately 1 million Americans who identify as Swiss American. Purpose of project Please use this project as a place to connect with others tracing their Swiss ancestry, share resources you find, offer helpful tips, ask questions abo...
By percentage of population, Nebraska is one of the most Czech/Bohemian/Moravian States in the U.S. Several counties were founded by Czech settlers; there's even a Prague on the map.I've been working on these families and thought that it would be nice to connect with others. To this project, I'm adding 1) Bohemian immigrants to Nebraska and 2) notable Nebraskans with Bohemian ancestry.I hope yo...
What is a "notable?". "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". Notable in the sense of being "famous", or "popular"—although not irrelevant—is secondary.So let's celebrate our indigenous peoples (American Indian, First Nations, Aleuts, Caribbean Islands, Central and South American tribal peoples ... ) and their descendant...
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...
Bohemian and Czech Jews in American History Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Jews have lived on the territory of the historic Czech Lands for some 1,000 years. They have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural development of the country since the times of the Duchy and the subsequent Kingdom of Bohemia, through the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, and the Successor State...
Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί , Ellinoamerikanoi ) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. The United States is home to the largest Greek community outside of Greece, ahead of Australia, Cyprus, Albania, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.More than 1.4 million Americans are of Greek descent. In 2010, 321,444 people older than five spoke Greek at home. Greek Americans ha...
Here is a project to showcase the many Arab immigrants and people of Arab background who have achieved notability in some way in the United States. At right: Helen Zughaib, Prayer Rug for America, 2001. Giclee ¾, 20 x 13 in. Original in the collection of the Library of Congress. =Arab Americans= Arab Americans ( Arabic : عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِيُّونَ ) are Americans of Arab ethnic, cultural and ling...
The backbone of this project is from an online article, Lebanese americans, by Paula Hajar and J. Sydney Jones. (See links below).OverviewThe earliest immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean were generally lumped together under the common rubric of Syrian-Lebanese, and it is consequently difficult to separate the number of ethnic Lebanese immigrants from ethnic Syrian immigrants. Neither of t...
Cornish Americans - Amerikanek kernewek = Cornish Americans ( Cornish : Amerikanek kernewek ) are Americans who describe themselves as having Cornish ancestry, an ethnic group native to Cornwall, a county in England. Although Cornish ancestry is not recognised on the United States Census, it is estimated that there are approximately 2 million people of Cornish descent in the U.S., which is four...
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This project collects notable Filipino Americans, Including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Filipino American or must have references showing they are Filipino American and are notable. Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos in North Ame...