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*Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IX Baltimore 1880-1899 | *Czech Immigration Passenger Lists, Volume IX Baltimore 1880-1899 | ||
==Finding the Town of Origin in | ==Finding the Town of Origin in Czechia== | ||
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in | If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Czechia, see [[Czech Republic Finding Town of Origin|'''Czech Republic Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | ||
==Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration== | ==Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration== | ||
<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | ||
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**Bulgaria 17,183 | **Bulgaria 17,183 | ||
**Romania 16,824 | **Romania 16,824 | ||
*In the 2001 census, 39,106 Czech citizens, or around 0.4% of | *In the 2001 census, 39,106 Czech citizens, or around 0.4% of Czechia's total population, declared '''German ethnicity.''' | ||
*There is a small community of '''Greeks''' in | *There is a small community of '''Greeks''' in Czechia. The Greek presence in Czech Republic is dated to the 20th century. Roughly 12,000 Greek citizens, mainly from '''Greek Macedonia in Northern Greece''', who fled from the 1946-1949 Greek Civil War were settled in several formerly German inhabited areas in Czechoslovakia. | ||
*There is a small community of '''ethnic Macedonians''' in | *There is a small community of '''ethnic Macedonians''' in Czechia. Among the refugees of the Greek Civil War who were admitted to Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s, roughly 4,000 were of Macedonian ethnicity; they resettled primarily in the Czech portion of the country. | ||
*The '''Ukrainian''' national minority in | *The '''Ukrainian''' national minority in Czechia together with the citizens of Ukraine make up the largest membership base with more than 203,198 members. Labour migration from '''Ukraine or southeast Slovakia''' to what is now Czechia began to grow to a large scale in the early 1990s. In 1991, there were just 8,500 Ukrainian citizens on Czech territory. However, as of October 2018, figures of the Czech Statistical Office showed that number had grown to 132,481, making Ukrainians the largest group of foreigners in Czechia, with a 30% share of the foreign population. | ||
*'''Vietnamese''' people in | *'''Vietnamese''' people in Czechia, including residents and citizens, are the third-largest ethnic minority overall (after the Slovaks and Ukrainians), numbering more than 83,000 people according to the 2011 census. It is the third-largest Vietnamese diaspora in Europe, and one of the most populous Vietnamese diasporas of the world. Vietnamese immigrants began settling in Czechoslovakia during the Communist period, when they were invited as guest workers by the Czechoslovak government. Migration was encouraged by Vietnamese authorities, in the hope that the migrants would return with skills and training.<ref>"Demographics of Czechia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Czech_Republic#Ethnic_groupsm accessed 13 July 2021.</ref> | ||
==Emigration: The Czech Diaspora== | ==Emigration: The Czech Diaspora== | ||
The '''Czech diaspora''' refers to both '''historical and present emigration''' from the '''Czech Republic''', as well as from the '''former Czechoslovakia''' and the '''Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia)'''. Czechs originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the '''traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown''', namely '''Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia'''. These lands over time have been governed by a variety of states, including the '''Kingdom of Bohemia, the Austrian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and | The '''Czech diaspora''' refers to both '''historical and present emigration''' from the '''Czech Republic''', as well as from the '''former Czechoslovakia''' and the '''Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia)'''. Czechs originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the '''traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown''', namely '''Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia'''. These lands over time have been governed by a variety of states, including the '''Kingdom of Bohemia, the Austrian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and Czechia''' also known by its '''short-form name, Czechia'''. | ||
===Vienna=== | ===Vienna=== | ||
*Around the start of the 20th century, '''Vienna''' was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague). At its peak, in 1900, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language. However, there are claims that the Czech minority numbered as high as 250,000-300,000, making Vienna a city with the second largest Czech speaking population, only after Prague. | *Around the start of the 20th century, '''Vienna''' was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague). At its peak, in 1900, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language. However, there are claims that the Czech minority numbered as high as 250,000-300,000, making Vienna a city with the second largest Czech speaking population, only after Prague. | ||
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There is a substantial number of people in France with Czech ancestry, including 100,220 Czech-born people recorded as resident in France.<ref>"Czechs in France", in Wikipedia, accessed 13 July 2021.</ref> | There is a substantial number of people in France with Czech ancestry, including 100,220 Czech-born people recorded as resident in France.<ref>"Czechs in France", in Wikipedia, accessed 13 July 2021.</ref> | ||
===United States=== | ===United States=== | ||
*'''Czech Americans''' known in the 19th and early 20th century as '''Bohemian Americans''', are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly in | *'''Czech Americans''' known in the 19th and early 20th century as '''Bohemian Americans''', are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly in Czechia. | ||
*'''Germans from the Czech lands''' who emigrated to the United States are usually identified as '''German American''', or, more specifically, as '''Americans of German Bohemian descent'''. According to the 2000 US census, there are 1,262,527 Americans of full or partial Czech descent, in addition to 441,403 persons who list their ancestry as Czechoslovak. <ref>"Czech Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Americans, accessed 13 July 2021.</ref> | *'''Germans from the Czech lands''' who emigrated to the United States are usually identified as '''German American''', or, more specifically, as '''Americans of German Bohemian descent'''. According to the 2000 US census, there are 1,262,527 Americans of full or partial Czech descent, in addition to 441,403 persons who list their ancestry as Czechoslovak. <ref>"Czech Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Americans, accessed 13 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*Immigrants from '''Bohemia''' generally immigrated through New York or other Eastern ports and initially settled in the Midwest, where the climate and farming was similar to their homeland. | *Immigrants from '''Bohemia''' generally immigrated through New York or other Eastern ports and initially settled in the Midwest, where the climate and farming was similar to their homeland. | ||
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