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For people who have tested and are assigned the maternal haplogroup M or who are believed to have had that maternal haplogroup based on descendants tested. To participate in this project, join or follow the project, add your oldest known ancestor who belonged to this haplogroup. The profile must be set to public in order to add it. Possible time of origin 60,000 years before present Possible pl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Jackson, Mississippi. Official Website History The region that is now the city of Jackson was historically part of the large territory occupied by the Choctaw Nation, the historic culture of the Muskogean-speaking indigenous peoples who had inhabited the area for thousands of years before European colonization. The Cho...
Timeline of Mauritian Settlers in South Africa Leaving Mauritius - By the 1890s, Mauritius had long forgotten the sugar-fuelled prosperity of the 1840s. The opening of the Suez Canal meant that it was no longer near any major trade routes. The price of sugar had fallen due to increased competition. The island was badly overpopulated, subject to frequent epidemics of Cholera and other diseases, ...
This project is part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Portal and United States with Counties, Areas, & Communities Portal About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Massachusetts. You can add profiles for: People born in Massachusetts People who lived in Massachusetts People who died in Massachusetts When you find helpful...
Historic Buckinghamshire English Historic County Image right - John Hampden 1594-1643 stands in Aylesbury Market Square. He lived at Hampden House and was the foremost of Buckinghamshire’s parliamentarians in the run up to the Civil War. His colleague, Arthur Goodwyn, wrote of him, "he was a gallant man, an honest man, an able man, and take all, I know not to any man living second – I would ...
As you run across the odd profile that doesn't fit in a family during the American Revolution, check to see if they are American Loyalists. They are an interesting bunch of folks from a wide cross section of demographics. From Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists or King's Men ...
Mission: Please feel free to use the ship and cross symbol on Geni.com, it was made for that purpose. This Project seeks to acknowledge people who self-identified as religious Huguenots, sometimes called "French Huguenots," who lived between 1540 and 1790, spoke French, or a language associated with French, were Protestant / Reformed Christians, and were somehow persecuted or discriminated ag...
MIGRATION FILES OF THE CITY OF ANTWERP AND FORMER BORDER TOWNS=== Please help improve the English translation on this page =There exist files of people from Denmark, Holland, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, etc. as well of the Stateless.The so-called 'alien-files' (foreigner-files) contain a wealth of information, both for genealogical searches and fo...
The traditional Polish community in Chicago, Illinois , an organization-rich ethnic settlement that developed in the years after the Civil War, reached maturity and almost complete institutional self-sufficiency before World War I. Polish Chicago, sometimes referred to as “Polonia,” has been shaped by at least three distinct immigration waves. The first and largest lasted from the 1850s to the...
Bukharan Jews are Jews from Central Asia who speak Bukhori, a dialect of the Tajik-Persian language. Their name comes from the former Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara, which once had a sizable Jewish community. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the great majority have emigrated to Israel or to the United States, while others have emigrated to Europe or Australia.===HistoryAccording to ...
The Children's Friend Society =====Image right - Boy ploughing at Dr. Barnardo's Industrial Farm, Russell, Manitoba, 1900. In 2010, the photo was reproduced on a Canadian postage stamp commemorating Home Children emigration. ===== Image right - Collections Canada Public Domain, Wiki Commons The Children's Friend Society (CFS) was founded in London in 1830, as "The Society for the Suppression of...
Timeline= 1805 Alfred Hasboun birth 1858 04 11 Emile Moussa died at 38 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war 1860-1914 Entre 1860 et la Première Guerre mondiale, l’accroissement démographique du Moyen-Orient devient important, surtout au Mont Liban. Le développement de certains aspects du capitalisme suscite la modernisation des moyens de transport et une industrialisation embryonnaire qui porte préjudi...
Mid-Atlantic Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent Roland's guide to surviving medieval genealogy in the Internet age. This page includes: DE, NJ, NY, PA (Note MD is under Southern Atlantic Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent ) See also New England Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent Southern Atlantic Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent Gateway Ancestors of P...
BABRUYSK Alternate names: Babruysk and бабруйск [Bel], Bobruysk and бобруйск [Rus], Bobroisk and באברויסק [Yid], Bobrujsk [Pol], Bobruisk, Babrujsk, Babruisk. Located at 53°09' n, 29°14' e, in the Mogilev region of eastern Belarus , formerly in Bobruisk uezd, Minsk guberniya, 70 miles SW of Mogilev, 86 miles se of Minsk on the Berezina river (the name Babruysk (as well as that of the Babruyka r...
Index to Projects - June Barnes Personal Project - please do not request to collaborate or join the project The following are projects which I have either set up ( Bold links), closely collaborate on or use frequently. The list is for my personal use to keep track of those I have set up and which still need doing. It makes it easier for me to maintain and service them - I can easily locate p...
Project Goals This project is a meeting place for users who share the R-Y93579 Y-DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their paternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives. Background Y93579 is a deep subclade of the l...
FORUM ARTICLES SEARCH Home > Forum > Surnames > Ellis Re: Thomas William Ellis/George Ellis... By genealogy.com user December 21, 2001 at 02:12:09 In reply to: Re: Thomas William Ellis/George Ellis... rai england 12/19/01 This collection is all I have on the "burdon" connected Ellis names.... ---------------------------- Summary of Ellis history ________________________________...
of Morgan County, Illinois: 1878 Donnelley, Loyd; Reproduced by Unigraph, 1978, p 371History of Sangamon County, Illinois: 1881 Inter-State Publishing Co, pp 578-560, 610Historic Morgan & Classic Jacksonville: 1884-1885 Charles M. Eames, pp127-128History of Morgan County, Illinois: 1878 Portuguese Presbyterian Churches: "In reference to the Portuguese Presbyterian Churches, the paper says: In a...
NEHGS - ArticlesPilgrim Village Families Sketch: Richard Warren BASED ON THE GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS Download pdf version Birth: Richard Warren was born about 1578 (based on his date of marriage). Death: He died in Plymouth in 1628. Ship: Mayflower, 1620 Life in England: Richard Warren was described as “of London” in Mourt’s Relation, but nothing more of his background is known at this time. Lif...
The Baghdadi Trade Diaspora =The Baghdadi Trade Diaspora consisted of a small group of very religious Jewish traders who came to a place that had absolutely no Jewish life at all. They created a very strong community that has had a large impact on Singapore. The Jews today now live in a multi-cultural Republic that provides respect, religious freedom and full integration into society. Although ...
Studebaker (US: /ˈstuːdəbeɪkər/ STEW-də-bay-kər) was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868[1] as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the firm was originally a producer of wagons, buggies, carriages and harnesses. Studebaker continued to manufacture other diversified products after automobile production cea...
Romani music has also strongly influenced Bolero, Jazz, and Flamenco (especially cante jondo) in Europe. Some prominent individuals with Romany ancestry are Elvis Presley , Bill Clinton , Michael Caine , and the English Romanichels of England & Scotland, the Welsh Kale, the German Sinti, the basque Romani. Romani music plays an important role in Central and Eastern European countries such as...
WHALE OIL was a commodity which was in great demand. It was used for machinery lubrication and as a clean burning fuel for lamps in Europe, Asia and America, where the oil from the head and jaw of these mammals did not congeal in extreme cold, nor require any form of refining, and could therefore be used to lubricate the cogs and wheels of the most delicate of instruments such as clocks and wat...
Austria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the country. For other uses, see Austria (disambiguation). "Österreich" and "Oesterreich" redirect here. For the surname rendered in either of these two ways, see Österreich (surname). For the Austrian national anthem, whose melody is often given the short-form name "Österreich" or "Oesterreich", see Land der Berge, Land am Str...
Religion Almost 80% of South African population adheres to the Christian faith. Other major religious groups are Hindus, Muslims and Jews. A minority of South African population does not belong to any of the major religions, but regard themselves as traditionalists or of no specific religious affiliation. Freedom of worship is guaranteed by the Constitution.Church attendance in South Africa is ...