Erica Howton's projects

Project organizing page for Erica Howton, Geni volunteer curator. Projects noted are not necessarily ones I started nor do they include all I've started.

Why Geni projects?

Geni's profiles & trees are very good, they have depth to them (documents, galleries, timelines ...). But they still don't provide full dimensionality of the people I connect to in this one World Family Tree. What I've found is that by adding attributes as reflected in someone's biography, we can all learn so much more about their lives and times.

For example, my earliest proven Howton ancestor, Jonathan Howton. The family story is that he stowed away as a teenager from England to America. I don't know if it's true or not, but by collecting "stowaway" profiles into a project, maybe we'll find the common threads between them. And now I am also inspired to find more projects for him; he had triplet daughters so here we go .... Triplets

May these projects inspire yours. Collaborators and contributors are always welcome.

Portals

• Arts & Entertainment
• Cause of death portal
• Colonial Americas portal
• Education portal
• Geni "Help" portal
• Jewish Genealogy portal
• New York City portal
• Notables
  • "Finding Your Roots" (TV show guests)
  • "Global Family Reunion" (media professionals & celebrity connections)
  • Notable American Jews
  • Notable & Notorious New Yorkers
  • "Who Do You Think You Are?" (TV show guests)
• Occupations portal
• Religion
  • Clergy
  • Colonial American Ministers
  • Missionaries
  • Rogerenes
• USA portal
• UK portal

Colonial America

• American Revolutionary War & battle sub projects
  • George Washington Slept Here
• Great Migration to New England & passenger ships sub projects
  • Great Migration: Passengers of the Mayflower, 1620 trivia: this is Geni project #8
• Early Settlers of ...
  • Maryland
  • New England (town sub projects)
  • New Netherland (and sub projects)
  • New Jersey
  • New Sweden Main Project (and sub projects)
  • Colony of Virginia (the first colony in the British Empire)
    • Ancient Planters of the Colony of Virginia (and their family sub projects)
    • Germanna Colonies
    • The Jamestown Colony
• Native Americans
  • Cherokee History
  • The Powhatan Tribe, Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas
  • Shawnee History
• Salem Witch Trials

Jewish genealogy

• First American Jewish Families
• Jewish Community of Brody
• Jewish Community of Pinsk (to come)
• Jewish Exogamy
• Jews in Colonial America
• Origins of the Baghdadi Trade Diaspora

United Kingdom

• Border Reivers
• The Court of Elizabeth l, Queen of England
• Regicides of Charles l

United States of America

• Louisiana Master Project
• New York City Portal
• State of Kentucky

pet projects

• Gateway profiles
• Robbers, Rustlers and Rogues
• Scandalous Women
• Spurious Pedigrees