Forum:Migrants/immigrants/emigrants - including those who stopped over on the way

(The first comment here was on my talk page but needs an easier more public, separately indexable forum.)

Your preference? emigrants always, or immigrants sometimes. to or in
Ohio German immigrants -> -or- (since they may not have actually emigrated to Ohio directly, but may have simply wound up there after some scurrying about for some free land. -or-
 * 1) Emigrants from Germany to Ohio
 * 2) Emigrants from Germany in Ohio
 * 3) Immigrants to Ohio from Germany?
 * ~  Ph l o x  01:21, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I started wondering about this in July.
 * Where people are to be in a category that specifies two ends of a migration movement, I suggest we call it "Migrants from X to Y". Migrants so as to distinguish readily in lists. Origin and destination chronologically.
 * People who made a stopover that produced a record about them can be in three categories: A to B, B to C, A to C. If their scurrying may have been recorded in a biography but resulted in no source documentation, I wouldn't give them a category involving the stopover but if someone else did I wouldn't mind. Wikia has the space.
 * Robin Patterson 03:23, 22 November 2007 (UTC)