The article links the issue of Slovenian emigration till World War 1 with the issue of the people's awareness as to the importance of this subject, particularlj as far as preservation of archival and other sources of research work is concerned. While publicistic work of that time is well preserved, there are but a few papers analyzing the emigration issue of the time. It was a time for political, ideological and emotional experience, and not so much a time for establishing facts in regard to the issue of Slovenian emigration.