The Island Register – The Americans, The Earl of Selkirk, and Colonsay’s 1806 Emigrants to Prince Edward Island
over 100 genealogy links for Russia, including ships passenger lists, censuses, cemetery transcriptions, military records
Russian Art (22,000 BCE – 1920): Icon Painting, Mosaics, Goldsmithing and Cathedral Architecture in Moscow, Kiev and Novgorod
Emigrants to Oregon Prior To 1839. compiled by Stephenie Flora oregonpioneers.com copyright 2017 . Prior to the first wagon emigration of 1842 there were many visitors to the Oregon Territory. Some adventurers came by ship, some were fur traders and mountain men that came overland and many were missionaries who came to the wilderness to
Emigrants to Oregon in 1843 c ompiled by Stephenie Flora oregonpioneers.com copyright 2017. Note: members of the second, third and fourth groupsare noted with the group number preceding their names.
Madame Vigée Le Brun spent six years in Russia and seemed to have loved it sincerely. Surely she exaggerated when she wrote that one never sees a drunken man there, or that all Russian people lived very happily under the rule of Catherine II but, on the whole, she experienced there much warm-hearted hospitality and her talent had …
The Aland Islands´ Emigrant Institute is managed by The Aland Islands´ Emigrant Institutes association. The Institute collects, catalogs and linkups material about emigration from the Aöand Islands.
Primary Sources Lansford Hastings. Lansford Hastings was born in Knox County, Ohio, in about 1818. He led the overland wagon train to Oregon in 1842. Later he published The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California, one of the most important guidebooks of the region.
The name Russia is derived from Rus’, a medieval state populated mostly by the East Slavs.However, this proper name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants “Русская Земля” (russkaja zemlja), which can be translated as “Russian Land” or “Land of Rus'”.
The German ity in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union was created from several sources and in several waves. The 1914 census put the number of Germans living in the Russian Empire at 2,416,290.
