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We will discuss the origins of the Hewitt families. This project is to research and find out more about the Hewitt and other related families originating in Jamaica, West Indies.The early migration of the Hewitt families started with . . .== Naming Conventions ==See generic Naming Conventions page.Names: For consistency, please make sure the name fields of Master Profiles are first name, middle...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = The state of Connecticut is one of the original Thirteen Colonies and the fifth state admitted to the Union. This portal is for people researching its residents, southernmost state in the New England region, Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, ...
Update - Margolis and related families are included in Volume I of the Third Edition of The Unbroken Chain which was published in 2017 by Avotaynu, written by Neil Rosenstein. Many of us in the family tree on Geni contributed to this new edition. Update - Summer 2019 will be the third summer during which descendants of Margolis and Frankel and other families, including the related Bramson and A...
Siirtolaisuustutkimuksen mukaan Kivijärveltä lähti Amerikkaan ja Kanadaan 1581 henkeä vuosina 1870-1914.Siirtolaisten osuus väkiluvusta oli vuosittain keskimäärin 7,5%. Naapurikunnista vain Karstulassa on siirtolaisuus ollut voimakkaampaa. Passiluetteloiden ja siirtolaisuustilaston antamiin lukumääriin on kuitenkin suhtauduttava varauksellisesti. Erityisesti ne suurina nälkävuosina 1860-1880 sy...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bakersfield, California. Official Website Bakersfield is the county seat of Kern County near the southern end of the San Joaquin and Central Valleys. Wikipedia In 1862, disastrous floods swept away the original settlement founded in 1860 by the German-born Christian Bohna . Among those attracted to the area by the California Gol...
The term " Swamp Yankees " is a New England-ism used to describe the low-income, rural, farming/laboring families of eastern Connecticut, southeastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island from the Colonial period through today. Originally meant as an insult, "Swamp Yankee" has evolved into a term of endearment and even pride for the more rugged Southern New Englanders.As opposed to the blue-blooded ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Minnesota .While isolated Jewish fur traders were not rare, the first Jewish community was established in St. Paul, the northern-most steamboat landing on the Mississippi. They found little prejudice in a frontier town and by 1856 formed Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation. Minneapolis just upriver did not grow until the advent of the...
Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate of the U.S. and two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, was born in New York but his family can be traced back to Ruben (Reuben) Henry Wilbur, born in Chatham, Columbia County, New York. Other Wilbur families from Chatham in the mid 1700s are descendants of Samuel "the Immigrant" Wilbore. I started this project to document the Wilburs of Columbia County an...
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 Child emigration was undertaken by religious and charitable organisations. One of the earliest of these being The Children's Friend Society ...
This is the family history project for descendants of William and Susannah White, passengers of the ship Mayflower, which arrived at Provincetown Harbor, Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts, United States, on 11 November 1620. Please note that their parentage and origins are not known. We are also tracing the ancestors and descendants of William Vassall, whose daughter Judith married ...
Mgr. Martina Diheneščíková has undertaken a study of the Jewish Community of Secovce which will cover the community from the time of its founding through the Holocaust. Two Slovak language publications can be found online. Here is the English language abstract for the first publication: Link: (see pages 87 to 99) The Jewish community in Sečovce was one of the oldest and most influential Jew...
Irish Canadians=Irish Canadian are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived, 1825 to 1970, at least half of those in the period from 1831-1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ethnic group (after the French), and comprised 24% of Canada's population. The 1931 national census counted 1,230,000 Canadians of Irish descent, half ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Putnam County, Georgia. Official Website History Putnam County is named in honor of Israel Putnam, a hero of the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. It was settled by European Americans after the war, as migrants moved down from the Upper South. The county was created on December 10, 1807, by an ...
According to latest research, as of January 2019 it appears that there are two ancestral Y-DNA lines in haplogroup Q found in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: (1) Q-Y2198; and (2) Q-YP1003. The Q-Y2198 cluster follows the same pattern as many of the larger Ashkenazi Y-DNA clusters, with (1) a shared direct male ancestor dating back to about the second half of the first millenium CE, as evidenc...
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 f...
This is a Master Project designed to honor Mormon Pioneers who died along the trail; there is a sub project specifically for the tragedy of the Martin/Willey Handcart Company - Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Company of 1856 .=="That the struggles, the sacrifices, and the sufferings of the faithful pioneers and the cause they represented shall never be forgotten." - Winter Quarters Monument==The Mormon ...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = ILLINOIS "The Prairie State; Land of Lincoln" Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, and is noted as a microcosm of the entire country. The word "Illinois" comes from a French rendering of a native Algonq...
This is a sub project of Lost Along the Way: Mormon Pioneers on the Westward Journey , specifically for the three ill-fated companies of 1856 whose names are known to every Utah schoolchild: the Martin Handcart Company, the Willey Handcart Company, and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Company .=="That the struggles, the sacrifices, and the sufferings of the faithful pioneers and the cause they repres...
Navigating the Geni Big Tree to find interesting people in the family tree that someone else created can be very tedious, and you would likely miss the people you wanted to find. I put most of this tree together, so now I would like to list some interesting people in it for relatives who are new to this tree. I joined Geni in 2011 when basic members were restricted to a small number of profile...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Official Website History Located in Mississippi's southwestern corner, on the Louisiana border, Wilkinson County was one of the state's original counties, formed in 1802 and named for Revolutionary War general James Wilkinson, the first governor of the Louisiana Territory. After Indian Removal in th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Official Website The name Tangipahoa comes from an Acolapissa word meaning "ear of corn" or "those who gather corn." The parish was organized in 1869 during Reconstruction. Parts of this area had already been developed for sugar cane plantations when the parish was organized, but yeomen farmers occupie...
The following is excerpted from Ch. 7 of Mists of Antiquity: "The Misty Origins of the Barclays" Mists DispersedAmong the scholars painstakingly dispersing those mists which envelop the difficult period immediately before surnames became hereditary has been Beryl Platts, an energetic and indefatigable explorer of ancient charters. In her books on the Flemish Heritage in Scotland she accepted th...
The pace of white settlement in the Southeast increased greatly after the War of 1812 and the Treaty of Fort Jackson and the subsequent availability of land previously settled by Native Americans. A small assortment of log cabins soon arose near the large Creek village at the fall line of the river, which the new settlers named in honor of the sixteenth-century Chief Tuskaloosa. of a Muskogean-...
Access point for the Global-Geni-user-Community to Indonesian users & sources* Portal to build bridges between Indonesia and descendants from Indonesians worldwide* We invite all Indonesian users as well as people anywhere in the world with Indonesian family and/or ancestors to join!=International Indonesian PortalIndonesia has a population of over 240 million people. Throughout its history, it...
Burr Oak Cemetery is a cemetery located in Alsip, Illinois, United States, a suburb southwest of Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1927, Burr Oak was one of the few early Chicago cemeteries focused on the needs of the African-American community, it is the final resting place of many black celebrities, including Chicago blues musicians, athletes, and other notables. The origins of Burr Oak Ceme...