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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marengo County, Alabama. Official Website Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818, from land acquired from the Choctaw by the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens on October 24, 1816. Like the other four of the "Five Civilized Tribes", over the course of the following twenty years the Choctaw we...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Desha County, Arkansas. Desha County was created by the Arkansas Legislature on December 12, 1838, consisting of the lands of Arkansas County separated from the county seat by the Arkansas River and the White River, and land from Chicot County. The county was named for Captain Benjamin Desha, who fought in the War of 1812. Located i...
This Project is to find our Quaker Ancestors on Barbados. Feel free to join and bring your ancestor profile along. ==Quakers on Barbados==* 1655 Quakers Mary Fisher and Ann Austin traveled to Barbados and are said to have been the first Quakers in America. >"The island of Barbados was during the 17th century the great port of entry to the colonies in the western world. In the last half of the c...
Message from YFULL we renamed the subclade E-SK1733 to E-Y131346 ( ) because the SNP SK1733 is of low quality and occurs in many haplogroups. Terminal SNPs from yfull BY3571 • BY36827 • BY82597 • BZ355 • SK1733 • Y131293 • Y131304 • Y131307 • Y131308 • Y131309 • Y131310 • Y131311 • Y131316 • Y131317 • Y131318 • Y131319 • Y131320 • Y131324 • Y131325 • Y131326 • Y131331 • Y131334 • Y131335 ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Indiana .Jews have long been a presence in Indiana and the Old Northwest albeit very small. Two distinct phases and two different types of immigrants characterized Jewish migration into 19th century Indiana. The initial "wave" began as early as the 1760s when Jewish traders, businessmen, and land dealers instrumental in the estab...
=Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry (2004) - Colonial American immigrants= ===objective===* to ensure "gateway" profiles to royal ancestors are as well sourced as we can do=== method===* use Douglas Richardson's book Plantagenet Ancestry as a cited source for the lines covered. Mr. Richardson has a list of 205 colonial immigrants with Plantagenet ancestry assembled in the report, colonial immigr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chicot County, Arkansas. History Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came to this area with his expedition in 1542, settling for a time in the village or territory known as Guachoya. The European-American town of Lake Village later developed in the 19th century at Lake Chicot, formed by an oxbow of the Mississippi River. Eighteenth-...
The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. They historically were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and in the interior regions along Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and f...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Official Website History From the early days of plantations, African slaves outnumbered the European minority in the colony. The plantations on the Sea Islands had large concentrations of slaves, and frequently limited interaction with whites. The islands were sites of the development of the Gullah...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Official Website Sauk County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Sauk County consisted entirely of settlers from New England as well as some from upstate New York who had parents who moved to that region from New England shortly after the American Revolution. These people were "Yankee" sett...
Dallas County was created by the Alabama territorial legislature on February 9, 1818, from Montgomery County. This was a portion of the Creek cession of lands to the US government of August 9, 1814. The Creek were known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast. The county was named for Alexander James Dallas , US Secretary of the Treasury.. The county is traversed by the Alabama Ri...
The purpose of this project is to gather information on founders and early inhabitants of Montpelier, Indiana. Immigrants came from Montpelier, Vermont and named the town after their beloved Vermont home land. Abel Baldwin platted out the town on September 5, 1837. Montpelier was incorportated in 1870. Read information below:1. In 1836 and 1837 a considerable number of emigrants cane from Vermo...
Origin of the Retif/Retief family in South Africa Attempt to unravel and clarify the Retif family origins in South Africa with reliable sources In France Jacques Retif x Debora Retif A son and a daughter from this marriage Francois Retif, SV/PROG x Marie Mouy, SM ( Mooij ) 9 Children - b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 b9 Anne Retif, SM/PROG x Pierre Rousseau, SV/PROG
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Francis Cooke, "Mayflower" Passenger , family, from earlier 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 collaborat...
Queenstown ,county Cork (now Cobh)==From 1848 - 1950 over 6 million adults and children emigrated from Ireland - over 2.5 million departed from Cobh county Cork Ireland , making it the single most important port of emigration.Cork was the major emigration port, although every port in Ireland was used as a point of emigration at some stage.==Liverpool==The port city of Liverpool, with a current ...
Umbrella Directory This project is an Umbrella Directory Project to help teleport Geni members to experience and explore the evolution of mankind vis-à-vis virtually providing historical context to profiles and projects on Geni. Science, - Religion, - Politics, - Culture, - Historical Notables, - Major Historical Events, - Rise and Decline of World Powers, - Art, - Music, - Philosophy, - Mat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cleveland, Ohio. Official Website Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is also known as "The Forest City", "The North Coast", "C-Town", "Mistake on the Lake" and "The Rock and Roll Capital of the World". It is home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Cleveland was established on July 22, 1796, by surveyors of the Conn...
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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clark County, Arkansas. Among the various Indian cultures onc found here, were the Caddoan Mississippian culture, who occupied certain sites in Arkansas at different times. This was the westernmost expression of the Mississippian culture, which developed a vast network and numerous centers of development throughout the Mississippi Va...
West Indies - Caribbean Region Master Project==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help*Start your own related project.*Add your profiles.*Start or take part in a discussion==How to Contribute==* Please clic...
The surname of Gould is of an Anglo-Saxon origin, with two possible sources. The first of these sources is that the Gould surname is derived from a personal name or nickname, derived from the Old English word “Golde”. Golde is the femine form of the name. And also from the Old English word “Golda” which is a masculine name. They both translate to mean gold. This name was often given to someone ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fulton County, Indiana. Official Website History The county was formed in 1836. It was named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. Native Americans in the county believed that a terrible monster lived in Lake Manitou and for that reason they never lived around the lake. Early settlers called it the Devil's Lake and there w...
SUB PROJECT TO: The Ramapo Mountain People, New Netherland to present# Please add Profiles. Restrict to those whom you consider to be linked by blood and/or marriage to Native Americans# This is a research project: Please do not be hesitant.==Discussion==As the GENi World Family Tree grows, we are beginning to find connections between families of African heritage, Native Americans, and others w...
To clarify the ancestors of John Warren of Watertown, Massachusetts who arrived on the Arabella, the Flagship of the Winthrop Fleet, and who is the progenitor of the Warren and Bigelow line of Boston. John the Middle Warren is his father.1: Richard Warren of the Mayflower Compact is NOT related by any research as of this time to John Warren of Watertown, Massachusetts who arrived on the Flagshi...
MARRAKESH, one of the former capitals of *Morocco, situated at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains. The city was founded in the latter half of the 11th century by the *Almoravid dynasty. A Jewish community was established there soon thereafter, coming from different parts of southern Morocco. Many were subsequently barred from inhabiting the city while others were persecuted by the *Almohads i...