Emigration Port Ceremonies

In September 2023 and again in 2025, Icelandic Roots volunteers and members traveled to Iceland to dedicate four monuments in four emigration ports. The monuments honor the communities and the emigrants who left Iceland for North America and other places unknown.

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The dedication ceremonies were a mixture of joy in celebrating with the living members of each community, and also an underlying somberness in recognition of the ache those departures embedded in the hearts of those who left and those who remained. That loss was felt in the living community that gathered to honor the ancestors from that era.