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Personal "Gateway" Ancestors

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  • Mary Fleming (bef.1648 - 1720)
    Biography Mary (Randolph) Fleming was born on October 9, 1648 in Moreton Morrell, Warwicks, England. Her parents were Richard Randolph, Sr. and Elizabeth (Ryland) Randolph . Mary married William Flem...
  • Capt. Richard Wright (aft.1633 - 1663)
    See Miles Files for Richard Wright as Gateway Ancestor for Descendants of Charlemagne (741-813, King of the Franks & Holy Roman Emperor of the West) and Ancestors of Robert Wright (Hack lines to Englis...
  • Charlote Emmerich (1787 - 1863)
    Escreveu uma carta aos sogros em 19/12/1824, falando sobre a vinda ao Brasil. A carta está no Staatsarchiv, em Darmstadt. Transcrição no livro Cartas da Humanidade, de Márcio Borges:
  • Ludwig Aloísyus Büchele (1808 - 1871)
    Mercenário do Imperador D. Pedro IUm dos primeiros colonos alemães, fundadores da Colônia São Pedro de Alcântara, SC Fonte:
  • Caroline Emilie Ernestine Müller (1847 - 1938)
    Filhos de 1.1. Wilhelm MÜLLER oo2 Caroline Emilie Ernestine LANGE: 1.1.2. Fritz (Friedrich Karl) MÜLLER, *28.02.1870, Itajaí, SC, +26.04.1930, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Fritz foi chefe de máquinas na marinh...

From Nat Taylor's A Genealogist's Sketchbook:

What is a Gateway Ancestor?

" ... in broad terms, a gateway ancestor is any individual with known or traceable ancestry in a specific group who intermarries into a target group, and therefore adds a new set of ancestors to his or her descendants in the target group. For example, every immigrant from one country to another is a potential gateway ..."

About this project

Collaborators, please add profiles representing a door from one group to another in your Geni tree. Immigrants, "notables," adventurers ... Let's get beyond the usual suspects and find more people who connect us all together. Profiles must be set to "public.".

If you would like to contribute to this page, or add profiles, request to join as collaborator from the "actions" menu in the upper right hand corner. Click here for instructions about using Wiki markup language. Click here to start a new discussion within the project. It may be more efficient to use the "Related Projects" link to add profiles already gathered in a Geni project.

To add profiles to the project

  • From the profile page: upper right hand corner, actions, (drop down), "add to project" (select project)
  • From the project page: upper right hand corner, actions, (drop down), "add profile"

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