His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

The religious communal society known as the Shakers emigrated from England during the 18th century and developed their own folk dance style.

Brooks is Jewish ; his grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia.

Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts.

There were 207 Swiss men and 271 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Her family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

In July 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought the 100-hour Football War over disputed border areas and friction resulting from the 300, 000 Salvadorans who had emigrated to Honduras in search of land and employment.

Elements of the latter may have generated the Bubi, who emigrated to Bioko from Cameroon and Río Muni in several waves and succeeded former Neolithic populations.

Their grandfather, David Poe, Sr., had emigrated from Cavan, Ireland, to America around the year 1750.

His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863, changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane, and became French citizens.

Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin.

The family was originally from Germany, being descended from Jean-René Bönickhausen, who emigrated from Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Efim Bogoljubov, who had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Germany, was not entered in the first class of Grandmasters, even though he had played two matches for the World Championship with Alekhine.

On his father's side, Cleveland was descended from English ancestors, the first Cleveland having emigrated to Massachusetts from northeastern England in 1635.

Some Poles remained in the previously Polish-ruled territories in the east which were annexed by the USSR, resulting in the present-day Polish-speaking minorities in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, although many Poles were expelled or emigrated from those areas to areas within Poland's new borders.

He spent his childhood years in Paris, France, where his parents had emigrated from Lithuania in the early 1920s.

Her father is Catholic and her mother is Jewish, and she has ancestors who emigrated from Ireland, Germany, and Lithuania.

His father's Lithuanian family emigrated from Lithuania in the early 1900s, while his mother is of English, Irish, French, Dutch, and Mohican ancestry.

Rifkind was born in Edinburgh to a Jewish family that emigrated to Britain in the 1890s from Lithuania, his cousin is Leon Brittan.

Almost all its Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania or later emigrated to the United States and Israel.

Apart from the traditional communities in Lithuania and its neighboring countries, Lithuanians have emigrated to other continents during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

He fled to the West, when the Soviet army reoccupied Lithuania in 1944, and emigrated to the United States in 1947.

Wohlfahrt was born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia ( now Klaipėda in Lithuania ), but emigrated to North America.

In the same year, Mikenas emigrated from Estonia to Lithuania.

Slovo was born in Obeliai, Lithuania to a Jewish family who emigrated to South Africa when he was eight.

The two children were brought up with the help of their maternal grandparents, who had emigrated from Lithuania at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

In 1922 he emigrated to Kaunas, Lithuania, and later to Berlin.

( Also, each half of the neighborhood was the childhood home of a future American musical star — the first home of Al Jolson after his family emigrated from what is now Lithuania was on 4 Street, and Marvin Gaye was born in a tenement on First Street.

After fleeing Lithuania to avoid being arrested by the advancing Russian Army in 1944, and living briefly in Bad Nauheim, Frankfurt, Germany, Jurgis Mačiūnas and his family emigrated to the USA in 1948, living in a middle class area of Long Island, New York.

Argentinian, his family having emigrated there from Lithuania.

Carlebach emigrated to Lithuania in 1938 where he studied at a yeshiva.

Zorach Gorfinkel was born in 1889 into a Lithuanian Jewish family in Jurbarkas () in Lithuania ( then occupied by the Russian Empire ) as the eighth of ten children, Zorach ( then his given name ) emigrated with his family to the United States in 1894.

Of those that did, some remained in Vilnius or Kaunas after the War, while most emigrated to Palestine, the US, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Germany, or other nations – in some cases joining family and friends who had left Lithuania before the War.

Born in Vitsebsk, then part of Imperial Russia, culturally considered at that time part of Lithuania, now in Belarus, he wrote in Russian before he emigrated to the United States in 1892 ; only in America did he discover that there was such a thing as Yiddish literature and theater.

Stephen F. Cohen's grandfather, while speaking only Lithuanian, Russian and Yiddish, emigrated from Lithuania ( then part of Tsarist Russia ) to the United States.

Born to Duvvid Schubart and Katrina Helwitzin in Neustadt, Poland ( now Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania ), Shubert was 11 years old when the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Syracuse, New York, where a number of Jewish families from their hometown already were living.

Mark's mother was Bertha Bass ( 1912 – 2009 ), who was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the year after her parents emigrated from Lithuania.