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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 ...
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...
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 descendants up to about 1950 of those who arrive...
This project is for profiles of people of Lithuanian heritage. This effort is part of The Lithuanian Heritage Project (LHP), a group on Facebook whose members work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members. Those wanting to join this project should b...
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...
The goal of this project is to use United States census records to document the Lithuanians living in various communities between 1920 - 1940 (e.g., Waterbury, Connecticut, Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, Grand Rapids, Michigan, etc.) This effort is part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project (LHP), a group on Facebook to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between ...
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Lumijoelta lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. Arkisto Lumijoen seurakunnan rippikirjat, tilikirjat ja historiakirjat alkavat kaikki vuodesta 1902. Seurakunnan kok...
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...
Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizenship or permanent residence, but are of Lithuanian birth or descent. In 2019, there were an estimated 632,169 people in the U.S. who identified as being of Lithuanian origin or ancestry. Lithuanian Americans form by far the largest group within the Lithuanian diaspora. Chicago has historically had the largest number of Lithuanian Americans and th...
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Töysästa lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. ===Töysän projektit===*Paikkakunta Töysä, Etelä-Pohjanmaa Paikkakunta Töysä, Etelä-Pohjanmaa *Siirtolaiset paikkakunnalta T...
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....
Please add non-notable Finnish Americans to the Finnish Americans project. Finnish Americans comprise Americans 1) with ancestral roots from Finland or 2) Finnish people who emigrated to and reside in the United States. The Finnish American population numbers about 700,000. Finns first began setting in the present United States in the mid-1600s as part of the settlement of New Sweden. The l...
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...
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 ...
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Jalasjärveltä lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. Jalasjärvi liitettiin Kurikkaan vuoden 2016 alussa Jalasjärven ja Kurikan yhteisestä esityksestä. (Wikipedia-artik...
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...
Add your immigrants from Friesland Between 1848 and 1966, 2,000-3,000 Föhr Frisians emigrated to America for economic (and political) reasons. There have been decades when more than 30% of a village's population emigrated to America Friesland [or Fryslân] is an area inhabited by a Germanic ethnic group called Frisians who are indigenous to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and North-West G...
Collecting profiles mentioned in the book "History of the Finnish Settlement in Brown and Dickey Counties of South and North Dakota, 1881-1955", their peers and descendants.
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...
Irish Americans==Irish Americans are one of America's biggest ethnic groups. In fact, nearly 40 million people said they have some Irish ancestry on the 2008 U.S. Census. That's about 12 percent of the population of the United States. Many Irish people came to America during the years of the Irish Potato Famine, or the Great Famine, as it was called. A disease destroyed Ireland's potato crop, r...
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...
Project started at 6.12.2018
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...
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...