Družba sv. Mohorja has played an important role among Slovene emigrants, particularly as a cultural and language link with the homeland. Membership by Slovene emigrants is also a measure of Slovene presence in the new homeland. The paper shows, in number and place, the expansion of membership in družba sv. Mohorja among Slovene emigrants to the USA up too year 1900. The article Slovenes in the Calendar of Družba sv. Mohorja by the priest Franc Šušteršič from the Sv. Jože Parish in Joliet is also briefly presented.

Družba sv. Mohorja has played an important role among Slovene emigrants, particularly as a cultural and language link with the homeland. Membership by Slovene emigrants is also a measure of Slovene presence in the new homeland. The paper shows, in number and place, the expansion of membership in družba sv. Mohorja among Slovene emigrants to the USA up too year 1900. The article Slovenes in the Calendar of Družba sv. Mohorja by the priest Franc Šušteršič from the Sv. Jože Parish in Joliet is also briefly presented.

Presented here at the beginnings of church fraternity witch took care of immigrants and witch flourished mostly in German speaking areas. Slovenes became acquainted with it via Austria and, in the Twentieth Century, accepted it as a form of organized work for countrymen abroad. The paper draws the materials found in the archives of the Archdiocese in Vienna and from the newspaper reports.

Presented here at the beginnings of church fraternity witch took care of immigrants and witch flourished mostly in German speaking areas. Slovenes became acquainted with it via Austria and, in the Twentieth Century, accepted it as a form of organized work for countrymen abroad. The paper draws the materials found in the archives of the Archdiocese in Vienna and from the newspaper reports.

The paper describes the beginning, the continuation and the end of the Slovene Catholic colony which priest Peter Josip Jeram founded in the Valley of Eden in northern California. The author has visited the lost place of this Slovene utopian settlement which had been forgotten for ages. She highlights the reasons for the downfall of the colony and the life of Slovenes in the Valley of Eden through interviews with emigrants in California and through the correspondence which has been preserved.

The paper describes the beginning, the continuation and the end of the Slovene Catholic colony which priest Peter Josip Jeram founded in the Valley of Eden in northern California. The author has visited the lost place of this Slovene utopian settlement which had been forgotten for ages. She highlights the reasons for the downfall of the colony and the life of Slovenes in the Valley of Eden through interviews with emigrants in California and through the correspondence which has been preserved.

Using published statistical data, the author deals with emigration of Slovenes during the Nineteenth Century and during and during the period up to the beginning of World War 2. This chapter on emigration of Slovenes outside the state borders is only a part of a not yet published authors study on migration in Slovene territory during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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Using published statistical data, the author deals with emigration of Slovenes during the Nineteenth Century and during and during the period up to the beginning of World War 2. This chapter on emigration of Slovenes outside the state borders is only a part of a not yet published authors study on migration in Slovene territory during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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The process of migration has not been merely a phenomenon of the near past and the present. The author compares the known emigration of Slovenes in the second half of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries with a lesser known emigration of Slavs who lived in the present day territory of Yugoslavia, to Italian lands during the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Many similarities between the earlier migration and the more recent ones are established.

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The process of migration has not been merely a phenomenon of the near past and the present. The author compares the known emigration of Slovenes in the second half of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries with a lesser known emigration of Slavs who lived in the present day territory of Yugoslavia, to Italian lands during the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the Eighteenth Century. Many similarities between the earlier migration and the more recent ones are established.

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