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Georgia Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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''[[United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Georgia (state)|Georgia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[ | ''[[United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Georgia (state)|Georgia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Georgia Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]'' | ||
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Records of ethnic groups including Indians, Quakers, and Salzburgers are listed in the place search of the Family History Library Catalog under the subject heading GEORGIA - MINORITIES. | Records of ethnic groups including Indians, Quakers, and Salzburgers are listed in the place search of the Family History Library Catalog under the subject heading GEORGIA - MINORITIES. | ||
=== Westward Migrants === | |||
Free native-born Georgians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of Georgians who had migrated and died before the year 1850. See: William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref> | |||
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| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''State''' | |||
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Persons Born in Georgia''' | |||
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Percentage''' | |||
|- | |||
| Alabama | |||
| ~60,000 | |||
| 50% | |||
|- | |||
| Mississippi | |||
| ~17,000 | |||
| 14% | |||
|- | |||
| Florida | |||
| ~11,000 | |||
| 9% | |||
|- | |||
| Texas | |||
| 7,639 | |||
| 6% | |||
|- | |||
| Arkansas | |||
| 6,367 | |||
| 5% | |||
|- | |||
| Louisiana | |||
| 5,917 | |||
| 5% | |||
|- | |||
| Tennessee | |||
| 4,863 | |||
| 4% | |||
|- | |||
| Illinois | |||
| 1,341 | |||
| 1% | |||
|- | |||
| Missouri | |||
| 1,254 | |||
| 1% | |||
|- | |||
| Kentucky | |||
| 892 | |||
| 1% | |||
|- | |||
| California | |||
| 876 | |||
| 1% | |||
|- | |||
| Indiana | |||
| 764 | |||
| 1% | |||
|- | |||
| Total | |||
| ~120,000 | |||
| 100% | |||
|} | |||
<br>{{Georgia|Georgia}} | |||
[[Category:Georgia|Emigration and Immigration]] [[Category:English]] [[Category:Germans]] [[Category:African_Americans]] | [[Category:Georgia|Emigration and Immigration]] [[Category:English]] [[Category:Germans]] [[Category:African_Americans]] | ||