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Please Join Us as we Trace Our Jewish Ancestors' Odyssey Around the World to Establish Major Jewish Diaspora City Centers of Scholarship, and Explore the Intimate Eternally Enchanting Melodic Echo of European Shtetl Life from which sprang forth the Jewish Cultural Renaissance of Today. - A - Genealógicos de la Ascendencia Abravanel-Abrabanel Alasce and Lorraine Aleppo's Venerable ...
Greenlees family Research page The object of this project is to gather together resources and information about the Greenlees family (see name variants below). The aim is to have a gathering ground for those interested in researching the name and to connect Geni profiles and researchers to one another. The Greenlees family is wide spread with families located in many countries. The name o...
Ladysmith People in this camp 792 People who died in this camp 10 Ladysmith had been one of the towns besieged by the Boers in the early part of the war. A substantial number of British troops had been stationed there and, when they left, their barracks were used for Boer prisoners-of-war until 1902, when the men were moved to the coast. By this time the Harrismith camp inmates had be...
Uitenhage People in this camp 1061 People who died in this camp 13 Uitenhage was the third of the camps that the ORC authorities established at the coast [see East London for further details]. Louis Mansergh, the Cape Colony secretary of public works, who was responsible for constructing the coastal camps, considered that the site was an ideal one, slightly protected from the prevaili...
Kimberley Camp People in this camp 5434 People who died in this camp 586 Kimberley camp was located in the Cape Colony on the Cape-ORC border but formed part of the ORC system. As one of the besieged towns, Kimberley had suffered severely from the war and there was little sympathy in the town for the camp inmates, especially the families of the Cape rebels who were housed there. Kimbe...
Kabusie People in Camp 958 People who died in camp 6 Kabusie was one of the camps established in the Cape Colony to take the overflow of people from the ORC camps. [For more details see East London.] Kabusie was located on the railway line, close to the Kabusie River, about 3 ½ miles from Stutterheim. Inspector Tonkin regarded the site as pleasant and healthy. Kabusie camp seems to ...
Jacobs Siding picture by coutesy of eGGSA tombstone project. People in this camp 360 People who died in this camp 44 A little history It is extraordinarily difficult to describe some of the Natal camps since many of the records were destroyed at some point by the Natal Archives Repository. In addition, Jacobs Siding camp was established after the visit of the Ladies Committee, so ...
Merebank Photo's with thanks to eGGSA People in Camp 920 People who died 513 Merebank camp could be described as a test case, an attempt to create a camp which avoided the mistakes of the past. It was established about September 1901, mainly to reduce the numbers in the Transvaal camps and to bring down the terrible mortality which was sweeping through the camp system. In some r...
IRENE Photo with thanks to eGGSA. Follow this link to see all photo's of the camp. People in Camp 10297 Deaths 1610 Irene has received more attention than any other camp, for a number of reasons. Because it was located so close to Pretoria, it was under the eye of the senior camp authorities. The presence of a group of Boer women from Pretoria who nursed in the camp and who ex...
EAST LONDON This was a relitavely small camp with only 44 prisoners of whom 10 died in camp. It opened on 24/08/1902 and already closed on 29/8/1902/ Notes:29/8/1902: Tonkins, East London to CSRC: Camp is practically closed. Tomorrow he hands over horses to the Remounts. By Monday he hopes to have all goods cleared. The things he sent to the market are fetching good prices. Will send a ...
The object of reproducing the list here is to see if these people can be located on Geni and perhaps develop trees from them THEY LIVED TO GO HOME A B C D Susanna Magdalena du Plessis(Mev) aged 36 arrived 21/08/1901 from Belfast Camp with 3 children. They came from Blinkwater, Middelburg. Hannah Jacomina du Plessis (10) Jacobus Daniel du Plessis (6) Hermanus Ja...
Famous People Connected to Hertfordshire Image right - Cecil John Rhodes Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please add information about people of renown connected to Hertfordshire, England. If the person has a profile on Geni please add their profile to the ...
Little to nothing is known about most of these people and their ancestors. Let's research these people together. Primatologists Jane Goodall Dian Fossey Egyptologists Zahi Hawass Paleoanthropologists Lee Rogers Berger b. 1965 - American paleoanthropologist, physical anthropologist and archeologist Robert Broom (1866-1951] - Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist
La Profanation de Saint-Denis (1793) WORK IN PROGRESS . After the French Revolution (1789), and during Robespierre's Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the French National Convention ordains the exhumation and destruction of all royal tombs. In October 1793, the profanation of the tombs at the Basilica of Saint Denis is executed. This basilica has been the necropolis for the kings and queens of...
Following Louis Riel's Family, Ancestors, & Descendants.
NYLSTROOM People in camp 130 People who died in this camp 3 Nylstroom, the main town in the Waterberg district, located on the confusingly named Nile River, was on the northern railway line to Pietersburg. Situated in the lowveld, it was an unhealthy spot in the nineteenth century with both malaria and tsetse fly plaguing the inhabitants. When Dr Kendal Franks visited the place in A...
People Connected to Nottinghamshire People connected to Nottinghamshire can be placed in the following groups. Historical and Political people - accommodated by the project Historic Nottinghamshire Link to follow which covers the History of Nottinghamshire and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category. Families with their roots in Nottingha...
About This Project This project is part of the Notables series. This project focuses on the Alden/Mullins Family Tree, including, but not limited to: William Mullins Alice Unknown John Alden Priscilla Mullins John Alden Jr Elizabeth Alden Joseph Alden Sarah Alden Jonathan Alden Ruth Alden Rebecca Alden Mary Alden Priscilla Alden David Alden This list will event...
Washington Pioneers will include persons who lived in Washington between March 2 1853 and November 11, 1889 The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington. It was created from the portion of the Oregon Territory north of th...
The Dichotomy of Evil & Good The human Ambassadors of Darkness through history upon whose fiendishly diabolical trials the world exists in exquisite tension between Good and Evil . Recognizing Evil Outward masks of great piety and the extreme self righteous convictions of fanatical fundamentalism may conceal egregious evil ----therefore it is sometimes only through brutal actions, or from...
This project is for keeping track of all the women out there whose names are derivatives of the Germanic Adalheidis, from the roots "adal" (noble) and "heid" (kind, sort, type). Its many forms, which may have been used simultaneously for the same woman, include Aalis, Ada, Ade, Adaelaeide, Adalaidis, Aelis, Aelips, Adalheid, Adelheld, Adalheidis, Adelisa, Adeliza, Adel, Adela, Adélaïde, Adéla, ...
Note from the Chase Chronicles - July - October, 1930 "John Winthrop begins his journal of the voyage of the Arbella on March 29, 1630: "Riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, in the Arbella , the ship three hundred and fifty tons whereof Capt. Peter Milbourne was master, being manned with fifty-two seamen and twenty-eight pieces of ordnance..... upon conference it was agreed that (...
This is a project aimed at tracing descendants of lines where a Y-DNA test is wanted. Profiles listed here will be for males, looking to find (more) descendants in direct male line, either to confirm existing tests or to test a line that has not been tested yet. If you are a direct male descendant of the males listed in this project, then a test might be particularly interesting, as there a...
H64 mtDNA Haplogroup=H64 is a haplogroup under H33. It is defined by the mutation G11150A.
For people who have tested and are assigned the maternal haplogroup H or who are believed to have had that maternal haplogroup based on descendants tested. Defining Mutations G2706A and T7028C Origin Haplogroup H has an estimated age of about 25,000 to 30,000 years. In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve , Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Helena . It is ...
Ondernemers & Bedrijven ‧ Textiel-industrie ‧ NL ‧ Veenendaal ‧ since c.185- ‧ chronologisch eerst kleinschalige wolkammerij & thuisweverij - Veenendaal wordt Eindhoven van het Noorden genoemd ONDERNEMERS alfabetisch -ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-- BEDRIJVEN N.V. Veenendaalsche Sajet- & Vijfschachten-fabriek ‧ v/h Wed. D.S. van Schuppen en Zn. ‧ Scheepjeswol ‧ 1865 : 6...
The modern Olympics have been taking place since 1896 (Winter Olympics since 1924). This project is designed to identify the people who have had the incredible skill and perseverance to win a medal. Archery: Simon Fairweather Athletics: Harold Abrahams - Olympic gold 100m runner - 1924 Gold medal winner, 100 yard Sebastian Coe Cathy Freeman Gerd Kanter Estonian Discus Throwe...
This is a sub-project for the Afro-, Africans throughout the Americas Master Project and the U.S. Westward Expansion/Wild West project. This project is about Blacks of the Old West (outside of the original 13 colonies/states). It not only looks at the Black cowboys , which covers mostly the late 19th century, but the early explorers, scouts, drivers, traders, runaways, fugitives, translators,...
Circus people are people who owned or were employed by a travelling circus, including performers suchs clowns, acrobats, animal trainers, musicians, and other stunt-oriented artists, as well as circus hands, managers, and accountants. List of notable circus people Owners P. T. Barnum , American circus owner of the Barnum & Bailey Circus Seth Howes , American circus owner John Ringli...
For people who have tested and are assigned the maternal haplogroup V or who are believed to have had that maternal haplogroup based on descendants tested. Defining Mutations Coding mutation 4580 Origin Haplogroup V has an estimated age of about 16,000 years. In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve , Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Velda . It is one ...
Puzhankara family traces its origin from Wadakanchery, Trichur District. . Its a respectable Nair faimily with connections with the Cochin royal family. Any one having more relavent details are welcome to contribute.
Scope of Project Famous Cricketers from around the world. Books "100 Great Westindian Test Cricketers, " by Bridgette Lawrence with Reg Scarlett. Links Cricket Test cricket List of West Indies Test cricketers West Indies Cricket: A Select Bibliography of Resources List of West Indies women Test cricketers Women's Test cricket Cricket
The Malayalam Cinema , is the Indian film industry based in both Trivandrum and Kochi, Kerala, India, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language. Malayalam cinema is known for its realistic portrayal of relevant subjects in films with less commercial elements. Malayalam cinema has pioneered various technical, thematic and production techniques among films in ...
Povijest župe Drašnice Mjesto Drašnice , smješteno u uvali Svetoga Križa, spominje se prvi put u turskom dokumentu 1523. godine. Selo je postojalo i prije, što potvrđuju srednjovjekovni stećci i ostaci sarkofaga iz rimskog doba. Župa je od starine imala dva naselja, ono ispod brda i drugo pri moru, zvano Kvanj. Selo pri moru, uz crkvu sv. Jure, vjerojatno je postojalo i u srednjem vijeku. Tu ...
The American Civil War (1861–1865), also referred to as the War Between the States or simply the Civil War, was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the other 25...
Theosophy is a metaphysical philosophy derived from the writings of Helena Blavatsky ("Madame Blavatsky"). Theosophy offers explanations for the origin, working and ultimate fate of the universe. For Theosophists, the basic units of consciousness are monads that manifest in various forms, including in human beings. Individual human monads progress through reincarnation. Monads are guided in...
This project highlights famous people who use their middle names. A proper overview is forthcoming.
This Project is to study and document Quaker women. Feel free to join, add to the list (below) - and bring your ancestresses profiles with you. Quaker Views on Women For many outside observers during the first hundred years of Quakerism, the most surprising aspect of Quakerism was the fact that "ministry" – the prerogative to speak during a Quaker meeting – was open to women from the very b...
This project seeks to list representatives of all of the Jewish families from the Bohemian town of Plzeň (Pilsen) in the Czech Republic. PILSEN (Czech Plzeň), city in W. Bohemia, Czech Republic; its Jewish community was one of the earliest in Bohemia. The first documentary record is a decree of 1338, signed by *Charles IV, in which the city's administrators were ordered, under penalty, to pro...
Books and web sites about Rabbis that Perished in the Holocaust: Dr. Pnina Mysels wrote about Rabbis that perished in the Holocaust ( "רבנים שנספו בשואה "). The bibliography for that site More data about the Holocaust victims can be found in the Yad VaShem Data Base . Here I'd like to update , fix and add more data and photos from many other sources. - אדמו"רים שנספו בשואה, מנשה אונגר, ...
Please note that this refers to the hall of fame for American football , not association football (soccer) . Pro Football Hall of Fame Web site: Hall of Famers by Year of Enshrinement
Z'CHOR - REMEMBER, NEVER FORGET! We mourn them and vow not to forget them. We are heirs to their horror, their heroism, their hopes. -Andre Ungar (adapted) We mourn for millions of people, brutally destroyed by "civilized people" behaving like savages. The blood of of the innocent who perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblinka, and ...
Thank you to Geni for making us their Featured Project for July 11, 2011! From the 17th through 19th Centuries, thousands of European men set sail on behalf of joint-stock companies to reap the riches of the Indian subcontinent. Trading mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpeter, tea, and opium, these companies became the original capitalist mega-corporations as each -- and its royal bac...
The Lviv Ghetto or the Lwów Ghetto (also known as Lvov or Lemberg Ghetto , Polish: getto lwowskie) was a World War II ghetto set up in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) on the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. It was one of the largest Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany after the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. The city was a home ...
Prostitution is said to be one of the oldest professions in history. This is a list of some of the famous and infamous prostitutes on Geni.com. Read the Cultural History of Prostitution to see the significant shifts in attitude towards the oldest profession through the ages. Courtesans & Prostitutes Calamity Jane - Legal Prostitute Worked at Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch N...
Very little is said regarding this piece of history. Even though voting is not the answer but a small part of the answer we did have Ancestors who died for the right to vote and to join political parties. (The African History Network (FB)). Summary The Opelousas massacre occurred in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on September 28, 1868. It centered around Emerson Bentley, a white editor for a...
Who are the early families of Malden, Massachusetts? Document them, collect their profiles, clean up and extend their family trees. Early History of Malden Malden, a hilly woodland area north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on land purchased in 1629 from the Pennacook tribe. The area was originally called the "Mistick Side" and was a part of Charlestown. It was incorpor...
Geographers and Cartographers Geographers ...are scholars whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society. Geographers study how the natural environment contributes to the human society and how the human society affects the natural environment Sir John Barrow was a fellow of the Royal Society, was also a member of the Raleigh Club, a forerunn...
Let's hear it for the ladies! I invite everyone to locate on Geni, document their genealogies, and create biographies for the inspiring women of what became the United States of America. Native Americans, Women of the Spanish and French colonies, Early American settlers, frontierswomen, families of the Royal Governors ... don't let my ideas limit yours. I think of the War of 1812 as the cutoff ...
INDIA More than 9,000 POW were held in the following camps: Camps and Cemeteries Ahmednagar : Cemetery – Fort Ahmednagar Cemetery Amritsar Abbottabad Bellary: Cemetery – Bellary Miltary Cemetery Bhim Tal Bombaai: Cemetery – Sewri Cemetery Daghshai Fort Govindagh Gwalior: Cemetery – Gwalior Cemetry Jhansi: Cemetery – Jhansi Cemetery Kaity-Nilgiris Kakool: Cemetery –...
South African British Settlers - un-dated pre 1900 The purpose of this project is to list pre 1900 British settlers to South Africa whose date of arrival has not yet been established. Once their date of arrival is known they can be added to one of the other projects listed at the bottom of this page. To participate in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join...
Will all the descendants of Hendrick Jochemsze Schoonmaker please join in to help make this a complete tree. We know that there are several books written on the Schoonmaker family, including other names such as Shumaker and Shoemaker. Please join in.
"The name United Empire Loyalists is an honorific given after the fact to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War and prior to the Treaty of Paris." (Wikipedia) United Empire Loyalists May we always remember that these brave men and women, were...
―2011-08-24―17:40―jMu―medewerk ing-correctie-e/o-aanvulling welkom d.m.v. profiel-links of via attendering op mooie, leuke & leerzame URL's voor elk profiel i.k.v. kwaliteits-project Dutch-Documentation-Department . Please do NOT change the text, use discussions, document-attach or direct geni-mail for providing more information to the project-team. Nederlandse Architecten —A― Jacob van A...
Concept Project: Follow the Exporers and the Story of the Colonies NEW - UNDER CONSTRUCTION List the Explorers / Ages / Oceans List the locations As a high level Portal for the Voages of Discovery, the Golden age and VOC projects. Medieval travel (1241–1438) Marco Polo Atlantic Ocean (1419–1507) Portuguese exploration - Prince Henry Spanish Explorarion: Columbus & the "West ...
We all have a sweet-tooth, crave salt, a favorite comfort food, a drink that hits the spot, a family dish created for the holidays, or have used food to get to someone's heart because, "A way to a man's heart is through his stomach." Well, this project is a showcase of all the people on Geni who have won us over in some way, shape or form, through our stomachs... or our tastebuds . Bread and ...
The Bohemian village of Mořina (49° 57' 0" North, 14° 13' 0" East) is located around 20 kilometers southwest of Prague, and 10 kilometers east of the district town of Beroun, and is part of the Beroun District (okres Beroun, Středočeský kraj). The German version is Gross-Morschin or Gross-Morzin, and it was also called Velká Mořina (or greater Mořina, in contrast to nearby Mořinka or Little Moř...
Chlistov, Klatovy District, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic
The goal of this project is to find the connections between the families which origins come from the Ottoman Empire (see map ), especially Turkey, most specifically from Edirne (Одрин or Andrinople), where several branches that are included here on Geni have started. The Patriarchs Elias Avram Canetti , born in 1850, Andrinople, Turkey, is the grandfather of Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti . T...
Šio projekto tikslas yra viešoje erdvėje pasidalinti informacija apie viešai prieinamus archyvus. Dauguma atveju tie archyvai yra bažnytinės krikšto, vedybų ir mirties knygos (įrašai). Jeigu kas pradeda kurti medi nuo "nulio", gali prireikti ir šiuolaikinio Civilinės metrikacijos biuro duomenų. Dalis archyvu yra išlikę ir prieinami publikai. Dalis archyvu yra publikai neprieinami. Sio p...
What is a "notable?". "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". Notable in the sense of being "famous", or "popular"—although not irrelevant—is secondary. So let's celebrate our indigenous peoples (American Indian, First Nations, Aleuts, Caribbean Islands, Central and South American tribal peoples ... ) and their descend...
American Revolution: Boston campaign (September 1774 - March 1776) Result Patriot victory, British forces driven from Boston area The Boston campaign was the opening campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The campaign was primarily concerned with the mobilization of Patriot militia units, and their transformation into a unified Continental Army. The campaign's military conflicts st...
El Shatt The El Shatt was a complex of World War II refugee camps in the desert of the Sinai peninsula, in Egypt.[1] Residents lived there from the summer of 1944 to the beginning of 1946. The region of Dalmatia (in today's modern Croatia, then Yugoslavia) was evacuated by the Allies, ahead of a German invasion in 1944. The camp was disbanded in 1946 after the war ended. Background Fleein...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Stamps family, from earliest origins to near modern times. Related Projects General Note For more information about Geni Projects, see the Geni Wiki Projects Page . If you would like to contribute to this page, please feel free to edit it. Click here for instructions about using Wiki mark...
Målet er å lage en oversikt over Geni profiler av norske helgener , eller andre som er kjent for sin tilknytning til Norge. The goal is to collect and maintain Geni profiles of the Norwegain saints or saints with a connection to Norway Norske Helgener - Saints of Norway Den katolske tradisjon har tusenvis av helgener, og det finnes 7 "Norske": The official list contains only 7 names. De...
Libertadores es el nombre con el que se conoce en América Latina a los próceres nacionalistas de la independencia de Hispanoamérica, que hoy son considerados como "padres de la patria" de las nuevas naciones. Los más decisivos fueron el venezolano Simón Bolívar, el argentino José de San Martín, cuya famosa entrevista de Guayaquil en 1822 supuso uno de los momentos clave del proceso emancipador ...
Finding Aid: The following google search terms are useful in locating profiles of people involved in the labor movement. To use them visit google and type them as a search term: labor movement site:geni.com workers movement site:geni.com afl-cio site:geni.com organized labor site:geni.com Introduction: The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term fo...
Scope of Project This project aims to identify Pirates and Privateers on the high seas. Overview Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against per...
Many invented and fictional people have been inserted into genealogical collections, generally as part of an attempt to fill in the blanks, but also to connect cultures and justify claims to an ancient history. Profiles for invented and fictional people often become battleground among genealogists. Purpose This project collects and identifies people for whom no...
Scope of Project This project aims to identify notable film directors. Overview A film director is a person who directs the actors and crew in the making of a film. They control a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors. Responsibilities Film directors are responsible for overseeing creative aspects of a film under the film producer. They ofte...
Lineage of the Jaffe Rabbinical Family - Levush Malkhut - Levush Ateret Zahav - Levush Ohr Yekarot - Levush HaOra JAFFE RABBINICAL FAMILY 1. Aaron Jaffe of Uman (1568-1652) - Rabbi at Uman, escaped Cossack uprising (1648) to Glusk. 2. Abraham Abba ben Israel Jaffe - Rabbi at Ponevezh, author of 'Sfatayim' & 'Bet Yisrael' 3. Abraham b. Aryeh Loeb Kalman - Author of 'Ma'ayan ha...
The purpose of this project is to be able to have a list of all of the Jewish Mayors outside of Israel. This project will be listed by continent, then by country and finally town or city. Africa South Africa Cape Town Fritz Sonnenberg , Mayor from 1951 to 1953 Johannesburg Maurice Freeman , Mayor Australasia Australia Melbourne The Hon. Edward Aaron Cohen, MLA , Ma...
Background I am reviewing my 33rd grandfather Harald I Fairhair . Last time it took some days to clean him up, which required some research and consulting with other curators and managers to clarify for myself the 'most correct' structure of his tree. I believe I left his tree in relatively pristine condition having solved most duplicates, merges and conflicts in his proximity. I also searc...
A Geni Curator Team Production. "THE MALEVOLENT MERGE" A pulse racing, heart stopping, global thriller about a cabal of corporate white collar terrorists who want to destroy Geni's mission to unite the world in peace and freedom---with unexpected existential, extraterrestrial twists and turns. Logo created by curator, Jeff Gentes The Malovent Merge Characters:...
New Religious Movements are those traditions, either independent religions or movements within existing religious frameworks, established from roughly 1800 C.E. forward. Some famous examples include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Pentecostalism, Scientology, Wicca, the Baha'i Faith, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and Messianic Judaism. ...
For people who have tested and are assigned the maternal haplogroup H5 or who are believed to have had that maternal haplogroup based on descendants tested. Defining Mutations HVR mutation 16304 Origin In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve , Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Helena . Distribution (to be added) Subclades of H H (mtDNA) H...
mt-haplogroup U4 is a subgroup of U. Defining Mutations Coding mutations 4646, 6047, 11332, 14620, 15693 HVR mutations 195, 16356 Origin mt-haplogroup U4 (named 'Ulrike' by Bryan Sykes) has its origin in the Upper Palaeolithic, dating to approximately 25,000 years ago. It is widely distributed in Europe, and has been implicated in the expansion of modern humans into Europe occurri...
Summary in English: Bishops of the Christian churches in Norway, all churches, all times. The working language of the project is Norwegian. Prosjektets interessefelt Norske biskoper i alle kirkesamfunn i Norge, hele Norgeshistorien. Oversikt Det finnes mye dokumentasjon om biskoper i Norge opp gjennom historien. Det kan være greit å samle dem i en gruppe. Navnelister o...
From 1648 through 1973, the Bahama Islands were mainly under British colonial rule, with governors appointed by the Crown and sent to Nassau to administer domestic affairs. Exceptions to British rule were limited. From 1657 to 1671 and from 1684 to 1686, the British government abandoned the colony due to its inhospitable nature and the belief it was unsustainable. The Spanish briefly took ove...
Arrival of Malays to Sri Lanka and status quo
The Aleksander chasidic movement flourished in Poland from 1880 until it was decimated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now nearly extinct, the Aleksander Hasidim (also written as Alexander) were the second largest Hasidic group in pre-Holocaust Poland, centered in the small village of Alexander (or in Polish, Aleksandrów Łódzki) near Łódź. Today Aleksander chasidim live in communities in I...
Information and discussions about Genealogy Conferences. Please add any conferences around the world that you are aware of. 2013 Genealogy Conferences United Kingdom Who Do You Think You Are - International Conference , February 22 - 24, 2013, London, England Croatia at the Crossroads , London, 24-25 June 2013 Croatia 2. Hrvatska rodoslovna konferencija , 20 April, 2...
Lave Nye immigrated to from Sweden to Denmark according to Nye family tradition. He did not have a last name, so he used Nye, which is a Danish prefix for new, since he was a newcomer. He became a man of great prominence and in 1316 was the Bishop of Roskilde in the Sjelland Section. Source: Lexicon over Adelige Familier in Denmark, Norge og Hertogdommene. There was indeed a Lave Ny who bor...
Dolni Bukovsko is a market village that lies on the border of Budejovice and Tabor in the Czech Republic. A modern religious community was established in 1859 and continued to grow until 1898 when the Jewish population rose to a total of 1,972. During the war in excess of 500 Jews were sent to concentration camps. At the end of the Second World War the village became a haven for refugees from...
Still a Work In Progress I am adding names as I find them and if there is no profile for him on Geni, I am starting one If you have any information about anyone listed here, please add it to his profile Join this project (Actions > Join Project) if you would like to become part of it Wake Island is sometimes called the Alamo of the Pacific. It was attacked at the same time as Pearl Harb...
Geni's API provides simple access to our core genealogy features. Our goal is to empower developers to create new applications for our rich dataset. Resources Platform Developer Tools: Dashboard Documentation for developers . To register an application, visit geni.com/platform/developer/ap ps . Note: if the application is a desktop app, the callback URL can be any URL, such as the offi...
Women’s gymnastics made its debut in the 1928 Olympic Summer Games held in Amsterdam, and Netherlands’ female gymnasts won the gold medal. The members of the 1928 Olympic gold winning Dutch team were: Coach: Gerrit Kleerekoper Alida van den Bos Estella Agsteribbe Jacomina van den Berg Petronella Burgerhof Elka de Levie (survived) Helena Nordheim Anna Polak Petronella van Ran...
-—2013-jan-23-12:19+gMt-winter ~time—jMVu—this list aims to get more insight in how the 'taxonomy' of the different English nobles is constructed and not to link profiles for there are different other initiatives to make lineages on geni. Peerage of • England • Scotland • Great Britain • Ireland • United Kingdom Peerage of ENGLAND DUKES in the Peerage of England of 1337 : Cornwal...
This Project is an attempt to compile profiles of people with the surnames Haines and Haynes (as well as related surnames such as Hayne and Heyne), who are (or were) of British descent. It is probable that all of these surnames within Britain had the same original meaning, but that time and regional inflections have caused variations in spelling. (There are German surnames that are quite simila...
Boudinot by Way of New Brunswick, New Jersey A project for Boudinot descendants who are part of the New Brunswick, New Jersey line of the family.
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(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project. This project now has a sister family group at Facebook .) This project is to research and find out more about the Foster and other related families, including Forrest, originating in Jamaica, West Indies. My paternal grandfather, Maud Foster . "About sixty sugar estates were operating in Westmoreland pari...
This project is for people who have tested and been assigned the maternal haplogroup U5b2 and also for people who are believed to have belonged to this maternal haplogroup based on tests done on descendants. Defining Mutations U5 has polymorphisms in the locations of 3197 9477 13617 16192 16270 U5b has polymorphisms in 150 7768 14182 U5b2 has polymorphisms in 1721 and 13637 ...
Iisaku kihelkonna Sõrumäe küla talumehed 18. sajandil Jõhvi, Vaivara ja Lüganuse kihelkonnad; RGADA.274.1.1614/4; 1688 Sormägi Hindrick Kibbi Mihkel Juna Mihkel Griska Mats Wahna Juna Griska Jürgen Mats Eestimaa näljahäda komisjoni materjalid; EAA.1.2.943; 1698-1700 Eestimaa näljahäda komisjoni materjalid; EAA.1.2.943; 1698-1700 Eestimaa näljahäda komisjoni materjali...