His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditary, were Protestants who had migrated several generations earlier from Bohemia.

From what he'd read, a group of dissident Djanai had migrated centuries earlier to the neighboring planet Inar.

Muhammad and his Companions had earlier migrated from Mecca to Medina in what is known as the Hijra following years of persecution by the Meccans.

Bates settled first at Townsville, Queensland allegedly staying first at the home of the Bishop of North Queensland and later with family friends who had migrated earlier.

These people had migrated to the Ohio valley earlier in the century in order to escape British, French, and Iroquois domination elsewhere.

(His parents, William and Elizabeth Magaw, had earlier migrated from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, to the eastern shore of Maryland.)

He came to join his parents and sister who had migrated two years earlier.

After reaching Ellis Island, Mr. Walcott, better known as "Wally," joined his brother, who had migrated a few years earlier, in Boston.

In 680 AD they invaded Moesia and Dobrudja and formed a confederation with the local Slavic tribes who had migrated there a century earlier.

They probably had migrated to Alaska from Siberia at least 2,000 to 3,000 years earlier, though they might have been in Alaska as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years or more.