In the times of the "old immigration" or "settlement migration" in the second half 19. Century people from Burgenland moved to the Indian border into the middle west (Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas), where they could acquire free country cheaply or free of charge.
They were all farmers there.
With the change of the century "new immigration" or "industrial migration" began.
Burgenlaender migrated to Chicago, where they found employment as assistant building laborers, with the building of railways or in the soaping and meat factories.
In the year 1902 - as the last one of Burgenlaed's immigration landscapes - New Britain in the State of Connecticut was developed.
Many of the southernmost Burgenlaender (district of Jennersdorf) moved to New Britain.

Year	Village	Name	(Year of birth)	Destination	~
1902	Grieselstein	Ludmilla Hindler		New Britain
	St. Martin/Raab	Kern
1903	Windisch Minihof	Veronika Leiler	(1866)	New Britain
	Schachendorf			Chicago
	Neudauberg	Johanna Stranzl			++
1904	Olbendorf	Graf, Graf, Erkinger		Philadelphia

Today Grieselstein is a local part of Jennersdorf. As the first from Grieselstein Ludmilla Hindler migrated to New Britain emigrated and was there one first immigrants from Burgenland.

With a man with the name Kern the emigration from St. Martin/Raab begins in 1902. The grand homeland poet Josef Reichl lived there for a while with his parents. He wrote down the experiences, he made there with the emigration, in his play "Landflucht" (migration from the land). This play was given on the Guessing castle in the years 2000 and 2001 with big success .

Most emigrants from Windisch Minihof which is southerly of the Raab river in the district Jennersdorf migrated to New Britain. Also Veronika Leiler (1866), who left her homeland village as the first.

From Schachendorf, a Croatian village at the Hungarian border, the first people moved away in the year 1903. Three years later Johann Polany emigrated to Chicago. He left his pregnant woman woman, because he wanted to look around for employment first. She planned to follow right after the birth. This was not to happen. But in the year of the immigration 1906 he had an accident as an assistant building laborer. A scaffold broke down and 40 people died.  Most of them were from Burgenland. Polany was one of them. The emigration on the verge of the First World War and a short time after the war led to substantial population losses in Schachendorf. Nearly everybody migrated to Chicago and became member of the 1908 founded „Ersten Eisenburger Deutsch-Ungarischen Kranken-Unterstützungsverein“ (first Eisenburger German/Hungarian mutual aid society).

Because of the closeness of the factories of Neudau and Burgau the emigration from Neudauberg was insignificant. Most likely Johanna Stranzl was the first to emigrate to America around the year 1903.

From all villages of the district Guessing Olbendorf had always the largest number of seasonal workers. In the interwar years there were up to 23% of the population seasonal workers.
Most were wirking in the not-agrarian areas (roads -, railway and building of telegraphs). Olbendorf lies also in the overlapping area of different emigration landscapes. Thus people from Olbendorf migrated into 12 different target areas in the USA and in two different in Canada, furthermore in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. Altogether 141 emigrated, from them only 7 again returned.
As first Thomas's count, Samuel count and Josef Erkinger emigrated 1904 to Philadelphia.
With them was also a lad from Untermuehl, now a local part of Rauchwart, on the ship to America.
 

To be continued.