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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...
K haplogroup The mitochondrial super-haplogroup U encompasses haplogroups U1-U7 and haplogroup K. Haplogroup K is found through Europe and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago. It has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup participated in the pre-Neolithic expansi...
Please add Geni profiles for Puritans to this project, and link to the “notable Puritans” section when warranted. Collaborators welcome. Extracted from The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and sho...
Povijest==* Grad Senj staro je naselje utemeljeno pred više od 3000 godina na brdu Kuk, osnovalo novo naselje koje se prvi put spominje u IV. st. pr. Kr. u Periplusu grčkog moreplovaca Pseudoskilaka pod imenom Attienites. * Sredinom II. st. pr. Kr. u ove krajeve dolaze Rimljani i postupno preuzimaju kontrolu nad gradom koji se u njihovo vrijeme naziva Senia. * Tijekom V., VI. i VII. st.,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Amite County, Mississippi. Official Website History Amite County was established in February 1809 from the eastern portion of Wilkinson County and was named for the Amite River, which was in turn named for the friendly (French: amitiés) Houma Indians encountered by French explorers in the region. At this time, the population of th...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Return to USA Portal African, African-American and Caribbean thinkers have played a major role in defining the critical issues of our time, just as the cultures of Africans and their descendants have transformed the cultures of the Americas and the world. Source "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, an...
Liburnia (En) (Hr) (Sr) is in the North-Eastern Adriatic region and has a considerable geographic and historical significance with regards to Croatian Ethnogenesis . The region has over time been referred to using a variety of different names, the scope and meaning of which changed over time and according to the writer, so one finds the same area has been referred to as Liburnia , the Croatian...
A study of the origins of the Colonists of the Winthrop Fleet and pre 1632 Massachusetts Bay Colony Settlers. Research on completing passenger lists, name variants, marriages between families, ancestry in England. The Winthrop Society is actively looking for additional passengers, as its lists were never complete, and only partial passenger lists exist. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of eleven ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The first Europeans in Fayette County were explorers, who had used an ancient American Indian trail that bisected the county on their journey across the Appalachian Mountains. In 1754, when control of the area was still in dispute between France and Great Britain, 22-year-old George Was...
The Worshipful Company of Skinners (known as The Skinners' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was originally an association of those engaged in the trade of skins and furs. From History of the Fur Trade ===Regulation of the use of furs===In medieval times furs were considered such a luxury that their use was strictly controlled by a series of ‘sumptuary’ laws enac...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Charlotte, North Carolina. Official Website Charlotte is the county seat of Mecklenburg County in the Piedmont Plateau region of the US. The Catawba Native Americans were the first known historic tribe to settle Mecklenburg County (in the Charlotte area) and were first recorded around 1567 in Spanish records. By 1759 half the Cataw...
Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company whose investors included cotton planters, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs. It sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North Alabama railroads including land formerly a part of the Benjamin P. Worthington Plantation. The first business at that crossroads was the trading post and country sto...
People Connected to Dorset == Historical County of England ===== Image right By Nilfanion - CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons See also>===== Dorset - Main Page >===== Dorset Genealogical Resources >===== Historic Buildings of Dorset >===== Dorset Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards See also>===== Visitations of Dorsetshire
Please add your ancestors to this project if they were born, lived, or died in Rockbridge County. Add the first of the family to settle in Rockbridge County to the family list below and add the other profiles to the project. I will be adding photographs taken at Highbridge Church Cemetery and along Plank Road in Springfield and in downtown Lexington on 6/21/2013. History of the Scotch-Iris...
Trained in history (Medieval, religious, and Islamic), linguistics (historical and Semitic/Arabic), and computer science, I work in Natural Language Processing and related areas.My projects reflect the warp and weave of my life, of my two very disparate heritages from my mother and my father's side. On my mother's side: Great Migration (1620 -1640) from the British Isles, the first wave of 18th...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = This is the master project for Oregon and its history. =State of Oregon=* Nickname(s): Beaver State* Motto(s): Alis volat propriis (Latin: She flies with her own wings)* State song(s): "Oregon, My Oregon"* Demonym: Oregonian* Capital: Salem* Largest city: Portland ===Please do not add profiles to the State of Oregon project. Add them to the appropria...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Official Website In 1818, the Delaware Indians relinquished their tribal lands in the Treaty of St. Mary's. In 1821, Indianapolis was founded as a planned city for the new seat of Indiana's state government. The city was platted by Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham on a 1-square-mile grid ...
This Project sheds light on who we are as a civilization. It illuminates the world tree on Geni.com where some profiles in it are fictional. The persons' names are added to profiles in the tree. When we also read the links Connected to this Project one will get a meaningful Learning. Contents: 1. Geni as Illusion ? 2. Fictional profiles 3. Profiles without written Sources 4. How to f...
History of the Jews in Myanmar Wikipedia* Myanmar Jewish Community Past & Present * Between Mumbai and Manila p66 - 69 edited Manfred HutterThe first record of a Jew in Myanmar was Solomon Gabirol . In 1755 he was a Commissar to the army of King Alaungpaya and it is believed that he may have been present when King Alaungpaya conquered Dagon.The start of the presence of a semi-permanent Jewish c...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Warren family, from earlier origins to near modern times. Warren co-signed the Mayflower Compact and was one of nineteen (among 41) signers who survived the Plymouth Colony|first winter. Overview from: Richard Warren (c. 1580–1628) was a passenger on the Mayflower (old "May Floure" ) in 1620. He sett...
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles of land in Ar...
Background R1b-U106 is one of the large Western European subclades of haplogroup R along with R1b-P312 (Proto-Celtic) and R1b-S1194 (potentially Nordwestblock / Belgae ). Balkano-Anatolian R1b-Z2103 that earlier split off from R1b-M269 is considered a Proto-Indo-Iranian subclade (Dorians, Hittites, Trojans, Phrygians, and Armenians) like R1a-Z93 (Indo-Aryans, Persians, Medes, Mitanni, and Tatar...
The following is from this Wikipedia article :Stratford was founded in 1639 as "the plantation at Pequonnocke",[2] by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley, and either 16 families—according to legend—or approximately 35 families—suggested by later research—who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom. In 1640 the community was known as Cuphea...
Goal and Scope of this Project=This project is a description of the city of Detroit, its history and people that made it famous.The story of Detroit--and this project--starts from the first recorded mention of the site in 1670, when French missionaries found a stone idol venerated by the Indians there and destroyed it with an axe. Detroit on the map today.=Toponymy===How to Input Locations in G...
(Project title was updated from DNA Primer - A portal for genetic genealogy) Genetic genealogy is a hot topic, but many people are put off by the learning curve. This is a place to get answers to your questions. This project is sponsored by Geni's curators to provide a very brief introduction to the complex field of genetic genealogy. There are three sub-projects: Y-DNA Haplogroups for...