In a message dated 6/25/05 10:02:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cherlock@cheqnet.net writes: > In 1907, 338,452 inhabitants of Austria-Hungaria emigrated to the United > States. > > This was the largest number of people to move from one country to another in > a single year. (Oct. 1939 article) > Cheryl, Thanks for this piece of information. It comes at a time when I am writing an article about a Dec. 19,1907coal mine disaster that killed almost 300 people; the majority were Hungarians. I didn't stop to think about the possibility many had just come over that year. Marika