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=About the Irish Portal=Portal for people who are interested in Irish genealogy.The aim of this portal is to make this a very useful tool for research, and a place to meet other people tracing their Irish ancestors=='''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. '''...
This is the Portal or Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaican Portal: "Out Of Many, One People" : you will find links to online civil records across Jamaica that may be very helpful in your quest). Important Events in Jamaica's History 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...
Welcome to the Barbados Portal! =Welcome to the Barbados Portal, your starting point for all things Barbadian/Bajan on Geni. If you are new and would like to introduce yourself, or if you'd like to ask any questions, please use the "Discussions" link at the right.=About Barbados=Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) in len...
The Burkes, The Collins, The Lynches, The Murphys , The Maddens, The Mullings, The Lanigans, The Walshes, The McCarthys, McCormacks, McDermotts, McDonnoughs, McGanns, McLaughlins, and McMorris’s. The O’Briens, O’Connors, O’Reilleys, O’Haras and O’Meallys – the list is almost endless.* Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" * Out Of Many Cultures: The People Who Came: The Arrival Of The Irish * Irish...
(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project, and Jamaica - Lost Traces ). Jamaica Roll of Honor "Even though the people are dead, they are speaking to us” - Historian Enid Pinkney In the 19th century was the practice of burying persons according to their denomination and class Here People from other places are buried in Jamaica Here People ...
All welcome and encouraged to help us collate the Mac or McDonalds in Jamaica in the 1700s and 1800s. This is a Work in Progress long-term project, and will require lots of help from interested parties. Nobody is going to nitpick about formatting - give it a go - others will fix for you if you need it - and you can do the same for them. By map: MacedonianBoy - CC BY-SA 3.0, Map of the c...
Irish Families Researched by Geni UsersThis project has been created on request from the Geni users who are researching Irish families. This will replace the current Roll-Call Irish families researched discussion as this is becoming too difficult to read through . The names will be where possible listed with a place name and with a link to the profile of the person who is also researching the n...
(This project is associated with the Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project and Jamaica Graves project).== Objective ==The objective of this project is to serve as a repository for all Jamaicans whose genealogical traces end in Jamaica in the 15th to mid-20th centuries (1498-1950). This project is for genealogical research that dead ends" at a certain point.Please add all your Jamaica...
Highlanders and Lowlanders The Scots are not to be confused with the Scotch-Irish, who were Ulster Irish and emigrated from Ireland Scotch-Irish Americans and not in not this Project - We are tracing our ancestors who were born in Scotland and emigrated directly from Scotland to the American Colonies, Canada, and Jamaica. Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Queens or Queens County, New York. Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the largest borough of New York City in area and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island, with Nassau County to the east. Queens also shares water borders with ...
SPORTS PLAYED IN JAMAICA == Jamaica - Lost Traces Jamaica Graves Famous Jamaicans Irish in Jamaica Petticoat Rebellion Jamaican Planters Jamaica Family DNA Jamaica Surname _____________________Horse Racing History* History Story Track and Field* Track
I understand, For many Jamaican families it is difficult to name sometimes our grandparents, especially our great-grandparents, and least likely to name our great-great grandparents. I hope with more people doing genealogy on families in Jamaica, this changes in the near future!I am the Grand-daughter of GILBERT POWELL and ADINA WILLIAMS , and the daughter of GEORGE POWELL. I understand that my...
This project covers Caribbean peoples migrating to and from North America/the United Colonies (U.C.)/ United States (U.S.), prior to 1900. Starting about 1500. * A time-line of Latin America ==Arrivals in Caribbean from Europe==* Jews from Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Britain * See Albion's Seed project* Scottish and Irish prisoners and indentured servants* Cromwell's fleet arrived in J...
This is the master project and clearinghouse for all Jamaican surnames and surname projects. Collaborators with knowledge on the origin of Jamaica surnames, especially of those who migrated from other countries to Jamaica, please Join and share. Subgroups Jamaica - Lost Traces Jamaica Graves Famous Jamaicans Irish in Jamaica Petticoat Rebellion Jamaican Planters Jamaica Fam...
In the 1800s, Chinese migrated to the Caribbean-bordered areas, including the Caribbean islands, Central America, and Mainland Caribbean (South America), including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad, and Guyana. See Chinese Caribbean - Wikipedia ==The Bahamas==Chinese-Bahamians have a long history, dating back to at least 1879. The original Chines...
This is a list of notable Jamaican Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.===(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project.)Are you related? Intrigued by a genealogy? Please contribute by building out their family trees on Geni. Make sure the profile is "public" but please protect the p...
English French Walloon and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power ruler’ introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Eur...
Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli have put together two volumes of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls , aimed at aged 6 and up. The books were funded through crowdfunding . These are collections of bedtime stories about women who changed the world. The books each feature short stories about 100 real women who can be role models to children. The women featured are not "Saints" and include many...
ONE Species, many dia‧spora-ta ! . What good did H'omo Sapiens to chase them around this global territory? Maybe God gave it language to argue, dis‧cuss & agree… to be able to be friends, col-legues, co-operators, col-laborators, neigh-bours & family-members or to become like sisters & brothers in democratical administrated & religional free countries? . internet:sources-information-documen...
Language Portals = Language Portals are designed to aid and guide speakers of a language in their experience on Geni. Conversely, International Portals are intended to help non-speakers access resources in a language that is not their own.== Catalan ==* Portal català == Deutsch==* Portal für Deutsch sprachige == Dutch ==* International Dutch Portal * Portaal voor Nederlandstaligen == Estonian =...
Pioneers of Canada - Nova Scotia ===People=====Settlement and Immigration===The French who established the first successful settlement of Europeans in the province at Port-Royal in 1605 named it Acadia, from the name assigned to the coast by Giovanni da Verrazzano. Lasting British settlement did not occur until the founding of Halifax in 1749 by Governor Edward Cornwallis who brought with him s...
A Sub-project of The Jamaica Out of Many - One People Master Project A project about Jamaican slave owners, slaveholders, and their plantations. See for pictures. Naming conventions First name : Ned Middle name : (blank) Last name : (blank) Birth surname : (blank) Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, N...
The Medal for the Best Shot in the British Army, Infantry , was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1869 and was awarded annually from 1870 to 1882 to the best shot of the Infantry of the British Army, including the Royal Engineers and the Colonial Corps.In 1923, the medal was re-introduced by King George V and designated the King's Medal for Champion Shots in the Military Forces . It could now be ...
NOTES AND LINKS ON MY JAMAICA, USA PROJECTS for Planters, Migration, Emigration, immigration etcHere I have added useful Links and info for some/ most of the Projects that myself and others are working on. Sometimes i find info that will be usefull later so i leave them here so we dont have to go looking for them again later.some are snippets or parts of rticle pulled for relevance so read care...
War of 1812 Project around those who fought in the American-Anglo War of 1812 If you add a profile and know any specific battles they served in, please feel free to create a project for that battle and link it to this page under the 'add a related project' section to the right. General description from wikipedia: "The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the...