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Fleeing religious persecution of Protestants in France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes (which had guaranteed their rights), 200 000 French Huguenots emigrated to countries such as Switzerland. Germany, England, America, and South Africa. They came from two main regions in France and the Southern Netherlands, one region stretched from Flanders to the Loire Valley, the other reg...
Cemetery Name: Messines Ridge New Zealand Memorial Cemetery Location: Mesen, West-Vlaanderen,Belgium NZ Casualties: 828 Total Known Casualties: 828 Listed Casualties: 828 Image right By Wernervc - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Location Information: The Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial to the Missing is situated within Messines Ridge British Cemetery, which is located 9.5 kilometr...
Bienvenue sur le portail français de Geni !====== For an introduction in English, please go to the International French Portal =====.==Objectif==L’objectif du portail se résume en quatre points…* Faciliter la coopération entre francophones dans la recherche généalogique* L’amorce de nouveaux projets communs qui concernent la communauté francophone* L’ identification de sources permettant aux no...
Cemetery Name: Buttes New British Cemetery New Zealand Memorial, Polygon Wood Cemetery Location: Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium NZ Casualties: 378 Total Known Casualties: 378 Location Information: The New Zealand Memorial to the Missing is located within Buttes New British Cemetery, 8 kilometres east of Ieper town centre, on the Lange Dreve, a road leading from the Meenseweg (N8)...
Croatian Emigration indicates that of the Croatians who were reported to have "emigrated", at least 30% eventually returned to their homeland. Hrvati izvan domovine / Croatians outside the homeland Adresar trgovaca, obrtnika i drugih uglednijih pripadnika iz Hrvatske, Dalmacije i Istre nastanjenih u Americi, Africi, Aziji i Australiji iz popis hrvatskih družtava i hrvatskih novina u Ameri...
Broad project to list European immigrants from any European country. From any European country and any date (Century). Everyone is welcome to collaborate and add more profiles.
Notarissen in Vlaams-Brabant Welkom op de verzamelplaats van alle notarissen voor de provincie Vlaams-Brabant. Het beroep van notaris is in de periode rond 1200 in Zuid-Europa ontstaan tijdens een bevolkingsgroei, toename van handel en de daarmee samenhangende verschriftelijking van de samenleving. Hun verdienmodel is vertrouwen, hun zegel is een uiting daarvan. Die zegels hebben een evolutie ...
Belgian Federal Governments ‧ Belgische Federale Regeringen ‧ Gouvernements Fédérals Belges ‧ Belgische Föderalregierung The Federal Government of Belgium (Dutch: Federale regering, French: Gouvernement fédéral, German: Föderalregierung) exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. It consists of ministers and secretary of state ("junior", or deputy-ministers who do not sit in the Counc...
Mechelen/Malines In the summer of 1942, the Germans made preparations to deport the Jews of Belgium. They converted the Dossin de St. Georges military barracks in the city of Mechelen (Mechelen is the Dutch variant and Malines is the French variant) into a transit camp. Mechelen, a city of 60,000, was considered an ideal location for this purpose. Located halfway between Antwerp and Brussels,...
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...
Tentativas de colonização no século 19.Quando Leopoldo II ainda empreendia tentativas de buscar uma colônia belga na América Central, e que durante a grande crise social e econômica dos anos 1840 houve uma emigração da Bélgica para os EUA e a América espanhola, Leopoldo II por motivos estratégicos examinava o território inexplorado do atual Brasil. Como mais tarde ele faria com relação à África...
=====Images By Wernervc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, ==Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, BelgiumThe cemetery was first used from September to December 1917 for burials from the 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations, which had been moved to Poperinghe (now Poperinge) in preparation for the 1917 Battle of Ypres. The cemetery was used again by fighting units between...
Maires de Bruxelles • Burgemeesters van Brussel • Mayors of Brussels alfabetisch A • Gielis Van AELST ‧ ‧ • Adriaan van ASSCHE ‧ ‧ B • H. de BERINGEN ‧ ‧ • J. BERNAIGE ‧ ‧ • J. BERNSIGE ‧ ‧ • Guill. Van BITTERSWYCK ‧ ‧ • J. de BLARE ‧ ‧ • J. BOGAERT ‧ ‧ • Adam de BOGAERDEN ~Jordaens ‧ ‧ • Petrus van BOLENBEKE ‧ ‧ • Michel Vanden BROECKE ‧ ‧ • J. de BROECKHOVEN ‧ ‧ • ...
The siege of Bastogne was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgi...
Original page in Dutch.
Belgian people and their descendants in Russia
BENELUX: Notarissen - Notaires - Notaren - Notaries (NL) Dit is het project waar u alle lijsten betreffende de notarissen voor België, Nederland en Luxemburg per provincie, per stad en per gemeente verzameld zijn. Hieronder is alles gestructureerd opgelijst, met een (al dan niet, al dan wel bestaande link) naar een onderverdeling. In deze lijsten vindt u de personen die ooit de functie van nota...
Work in Progress (if you want to contribute to this page, please ask to collaborate first so that we can build a dialogue and get this structure right)=====.The Low Countries are historically the region that comprises the current countries of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg - as well as the current French départements Nord and Pas de Calais, and small areas in current Germany (including...
At the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, covering 57 acres, rest 7,987 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives during the advance of the U.S. armed forces into Germany. Their headstones are arranged in gentle arcs sweeping across a broad green lawn that slopes gently downhill. A highway passes through the cemetery. West of the highway is an overlook that affo...
This project is meant to gather the profiles of Jewish children from Belgium who lost their parents in the Holocaust. This includes orphaned Holocaust survivors from Belgium, but also Jewish children who were living in Belgian orphanages during the war, who were arrested in the orphanage and then deported to, and murdered in, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Belgium: Fatalities='Please add to this project any profiles of those who perished in the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918'To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assistance. Se...
Belgian - arrivals in South Australia - Index Many families and some single persons arrived in South Australia, a free settlers State in the 1850's to 1880's.In working with these records it has been noticed that many did not stay in South Australia.They may have gone directly to the Goldfields, many appear in Victoria Australia and Queensland. This project will list these persons and profiles ...
This project is aimed to gather all known people that were incarcerated within Fort Breendonk by the Nazis, during WWII. The following text was taken from Wikipedia. Fort Breendonk (Dutch: Fort van Breendonk, French: Fort de Breendonk) is a military fortification situated at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which is best known for its role as a Nazi prison camp (Auffanglager) during the Ger...
My Notable Ancestors=My ancestors immigrated to the Azores around mid to late 1400's, they came from Flanders and Portugal and I've been able to trace some of their roots deep into Central Europe royalty. This project is merely a fun spot for me to gather information from my family tree and organize it according to my genetic breakdown. If you are a 'cousin' and have had your DNA done, it would...
Council of Flanders - Conseil de Flandre=...===== (Under construction) =====---------------------------------------------------------------------------------==Achtergrond (Background) ==De Raad van Vlaanderen was het hoogste rechtscollege in het graafschap Vlaanderen. Het werd rond 1330 ingesteld door Filips de Stoute de naam Raad waarbij de zetel werd ingesteld te Rijsel. In 1405 werd de zetel...