The Croats and Hungarians of Burgenland differ in their emigration behavior not substantially from the german speaking. For the settlement not the language was the determining factor, but personal relations. Where ever a first settler established itself, there he also attracted friends and relatives.
In Chicago so many extended families lived from Neuberg and Guettenbach that they could organize "cousin Picnics" with hundreds participants.

Because of the nearness of Vienna and there possibilities for employment only few Croats from northern Burgenland emigrated. The Croats of central Burgenland (Warasdorf and surrounding area) settled particularly in South Bend near Chicago. The Croats of Guettenbach and Neuberg moved particularly to Chicago, those from Stinatz to Buffalo and the Hungarians from Unterwart established themselves in large number in St. Louis.

Year	Village	Name	(Year of birth)	Destination	~
1897	Podersdorf
1898	Krensdorf
	Stinatz	Johann Fabsits		Buffalo
	Sulz	Florian Csekits	(1875)	Nazareth	+
	Heiligenbrunn				+
	Krobotek	Karl Schmidt	(1883)	New Britain

The first emigrants from Podersdorf left their homeland as can be prove in the year 1897. Up to 1923 about 40 persons migrated to America.

One year later begins the emigration in Krensdorf in the district Mattersburg. However a Krensdorfer forgotten meanwhile is to have already driven to America in the center of the 80's.

The city Buffalo at the narrow land bridge between Ontariosee and Eriesee at the border to Canada was a goal of most emigrants from Stinatz. The people from Stinatz were dealers. Among them there was also a certain Johann Fabsits (No. 102), who apples supplied to Hungary.
In the year 1898 he decided to emigrate to America. He borrowed money and drove to Buffalo knowing nobady there. He lived between Broadway and Emslie Street and worked in a slaughterhouse. Between 1903-1907 the largest part of his relatives and friends followed him.
They founded the burgenlaendische colony in Buffalo. The Burgenlaender in the city come to 90% from Stinatz. Thus there 30 Grandits, 20 Horvatits and Kirisits, 13 Resetarits, 11 Orsolits, 4 Sifkovits, 4 Stoisits, 3 Wukovits are among others in the directory of Buffalo. Until 1910 the village of Stinatz lost 10% of their population by emigration. 120 emigrants are known by name (77 men, 43 women).

The first emigrant from Sulz bei Guessing was the 1875 born Florian Csekits (No. 47).
after his military service he emigrated probably 1898 to America. Probably he worked in the cement mills in Nazareth.

Probably also in the year 1898 (with with + characterized places the emigration can have been 1-2 years sooner or later) the emigration in Heiligenbrunn began. Rather few emigrated from this village.

From Krobotek as a first Karl Schmidt (29.5.1883) emigrated. On 4/12/1898 he entered the ship "Westernland" in Antwerp, with which it arrived on 4/22/1898 in New York. A well-known emigrant from Krobotek was Emil Gerger, who founded between WWI and WWII "Gerger's Orchestra in new Britain". Back home in Burgenland he was the leader of the well-known dance chapel Gerger in Maria Bild .

To be continued.