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GREECE--THE GREECE WE ALL ADMIRE--IS GONE,BUT HOMER'S 'IIIAD' AND 'ODESSEY' REMAIN AND WILL REMAIN FOR EVER, NOT ONLY IN GREEK BUT IN ALL THE LANGUAGES.0F THE CIVILIZED WORLD.SO ALSO WILL VALMIKI'S RAMAYANA LIVE IN ALL THE TONGUES OF CIVILIZED PEOPLE WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN TO INDIA AND ITS POLITICS. THE RAMAYANA IS NOT HISTORY OR BIOGRAPHY.IT IS A PART OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY.WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND GREEK...
Meisel family Wikipedia The Meisel family (also Meisels and Meizels ) is a distinguished Bohemian rabbinic family originally from Prague, who descend from Yitskhak Eizik Meisels (b. 1425), a paternal 10th generation descendent of the Exilarch, Mar Ukba . From the early 16th century and onward, members of the family such as Mordecai Meisel achieved great economic prominence in Prague, becoming o...
Persian Jewish Projects on Geni Umbrella Project>Judaism is among the oldest religions practiced in Iran, with many Biblical references, like the books of Daniel, Book of Esther , Ezra, and Nehemiah containing references to the experiences of Jews in Persia. The earliest mention of Jews in Iran comes from the bible, following the forced relocation of the 10 tribes of Israel to the "Land of the ...
Read the ebook Genealogy of the Parke families of Connecticut, including Robert Parke, of New London, Edward Parks, of Guilford, and others, by Frank Sylvester ParksFirst Generation - the Immigrant/ 1. ROBERT' PARKE, (or Sir Robert Parke, as he has been sometimes called), was born in Preston, Eng land, in 1580. He was a personal friend of John Winthrop, to whom he addressed a letter relative to...
Jewish communities in India : the path to Singapore=The Jewish Traders created a very strong community in a place that had absolutely no Jewish life at all. They were Judeo/Arabic speaking immigrants dressed in long exotic robes who traced their roots back to Baghdad. In 1608 Britain’s East India Company expanded into and founded its first successful trading company in Surat, north of Bombay on...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Stamps family, from earliest origins to near modern times. General Note If you would like to contribute to this page, please feel free to edit it. Click here for instructions about using Wiki markup language. Send a message to the Project Manager to join us and collaborate. Overview from: Stamps Fa...
Shirt Wearing People The Tuscarora peoples are an Indigenous group in the Iroquoian language family. This nation had its origins in what is now the state of North Carolina, but they migrated north to New York and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. The word Tuscarora is derived from their extensive use of hemp for cloth, rope, and other materials, and it means "hemp gatherers." After a migration...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the Island of Rhodes. Introductory information by Leon Taranto. See his complete article on Avotaynu 2009: "From the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Rhodes in 1522 until the Holocaust, a vibrant Judeo-Spanish community flourished on this Mediterranean isle. In antiquity, a Romaniote Jewish community lived there. By the 1700s, Rhodes ...
Settlements==* Βάτος * Γιαννάδες * Δροσάτο ==Introduction==Corfu, an island off Greece’s northwest coast in the Ionian Sea, is defined by rugged mountains and a resort-studded shoreline. Its cultural heritage reflects years spent under Venetian, French and British rule before it was united with Greece in 1864. Corfu Town, flanked by 2 imposing Venetian fortresses, features winding medieval lane...
Background ==The English origins of immigrant John Rice, of Dedham, Massachusetts, have never been identified. Geni user Dale Rice has a family tradition that John Rice was a descendant of the Tudor dynasty. This project explores that tradition and attempts to identify sources that would prove the ancestry of John Rice.== Biographical Summary ==The first confirmed record of John Rice was his 16...
History With the long-standing problem of poverty, many people in olden Fujian decided to migrate south-east in search of a better life. There were many who wished to provide for their families back in China and so they toiled in new lands, risking business ventures with the support of relatives and fellow clansmen. One such group are the villagers of Jiangdou 江兜. Jiangdou, also referred to as ...
Farewell Nederland==== Aim of this project ===This project functions as a research tool for users with relatives who originated from the Netherlands but also as a collection of profiles of the people who did leave to start a new life abroad.Please feel free to add profiles of the Dutch families or descendants to the project, ideally with a small note in the about section of the profile with the...
I have a few pictures good for profiles of Queens. I will try to get more. I cannot do profiles for some reason, so if anyone is willing to help let me know, thanks. African Kings =Resources= * Website: Women Leaders in Africa * Warrior WomenAccording to Greek accounts, the earliest Amazons came from Libya (then a name for most of North Africa). They wore red leather and carried crescent-shaped...
Mennonite Wiki Mennonites The Mennonites are Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (at that time, a part of the Holy Roman Empire). Through his writings, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. The early teachings of the Mennonites were founded on the belief in bot...
Haplogroup I (M170) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a subgroup of haplogroup IJ, which itself is a derivative of the haplogroup IJK. Subclades I1 and I2 can be found in most present-day European populations, with peaks in some Northern European and Southeastern European countries.Haplogroup I appears to have arisen in Europe, so far being found in Palaeolithic sites throughout Europe (F...
Families Cauchon, Maupas and Moët, Goujon, etc.==Project created for purpose to collect and find all trace with not yet connected branches, all family members, through history to today around World, and connect all yet unconnected branches based and following at below useful sources. Join to the project, You are welcome. Feel free add any profile with the all surnames in this project were menti...
Jim Souder of Moutain Grove, MO, wrote that “the earliest known record of a Sauter/Sowder family in America is a land deed dated 16 May 1719, in which Jacob Sauter purchased 300 acres of land from Hans Graff and his wife, Susanna, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.” (Hans Graff was a Swiss Anabaptist who started a settlement in PA about 1712.) “The will of Jacob Sowder, dated 8 March 1733, was ...
Most of the original caucasian settlers of Avoyelles have French origins. The original 50 or so families who settled in Avoyelles in the late 1700s mostly came from Pointe Coupee, and for the most part were the children or grandchildren of direct-French immigrants, known locally as French Creoles, not to be confused with the Creole families of New Orleans. A few of these early Avoyelles familie...
Loudoun County=* County in Virginia* Loudoun County is located in the northern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. In 2019, the population was estimated at 413,538, making it Virginia's third-most populous county. Loudoun County's seat is Leesburg. Wikipedia* Area: 522 mi²* Founded: 1757* Population: 413,538 (2019)History Loudoun County was established in 1757 from Fairfa...
Scope of Project We will create documented and accurate Geni Master Profiles for the 45 families of Huguenot settlers in the Carolinas during the Colonial American period (migrations: 1690-1730) and ensure their ancestral and descendent lines are unduplicated and well represented. Overview from: The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism|Protestant Reformed Church of France|Reformed...
This project is to capture all the people who arrived in Sydney on board the "David Scott" on 25 October 1834 Female migration to Australia commenced under the Emigration Commission of 1831-1832. The Commissioners assisted hundreds of women to migrate and in 1832 despatched two ships whose only passengers were female emigrants: the Red Rover from Cork to Sydney and the Princess Royal from Lond...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Siedlce, Poland. "Siedlce is a large town(city) in Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland. Historically a populous Jewish center of learning and business. Siedlce may also refer to these small towns: Siedlce, Gdańsk Siedlce, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) Siedlce, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) Siedlce, Lubin Co...
Return to Moss name Study, USA Research materials: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties William Henry Moss, III b. February 17, 1687, Old Rappahannock, Va, English Colony; d. 1777, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States William Henry Moss , estimated between 1628 and 1674 William Moss , b. February 17, 1687, Lancaster County, VA; d. Septe...
GEOGRAPHY Niue is a large upraised coral atoll, and is a standalone land mass in the centre of a triangle of Polynesian islands made up of Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands. Located 2400km north east of New Zealand, on the eastern side of the international dateline.TIME ZONE Niue is 11 hours behind Greenwich mean time.CLIMATE Niue is a tropical island, warm during the day with a pleasant drop i...
H1 10,000 Years Ago Origin and Migrations of Haplogroup H1Your maternal line stems from a branch of H called H1. The common ancestor of haplogroup H1 likely lived between 9,000 and 15,000 years ago, not long after the end of the Ice Age. Her maternal-line ancestors had been among the former inhabitants of continental Europe, people who were pushed out of the north by glacial ice sheets during t...