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Notables of Welsh background===Before 1200==* Rhodri Mawr 820-878* Llywelyn the Great 1172-1240* Gwladys Ddu 1194-1251==1200-1699==* Cydafael Ynnyd 1212--* Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower) 1349-1415* Dafydd Gam (Davy Gam) 1351-1415* Einion Sais 1380--
Welsh Americans / Americanwyr Cymreig=Welsh Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales. In the 2008 U.S. Census community survey, an estimated 1.98 million Americans stated that they had Welsh ancestry, amounting to 0.6% of the total U.S. population. This compares with a population of 3 million in Wales. However, 3.8% of Americans appear to bear a Welsh surname....
Early British Settlers in South Africa Purpose This is a project devoted to the British settlers/progenitors in South Africa. It has been set up primarily to accommodate those British Settlers who arrived before and after the 1820 Settlers. Please only add the profiles of the Progenitors who came from Britain - England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, although it may be necessary to have separate ...
British Prisoners of War World War II Please add Geni profiles of WW2 Prisoners of War from Britain to this project.See also >===== World War II - American Prisoners >===== World War II - Prisoners of War from Canada >===== Others to Follow All PoWs were allegedly protected by rules for the treatment of prisoners of war which had been established in the Geneva Convention of 1929. See WIKI Briti...
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England=The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic record, but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries...
Wars of the Three Kingdoms= The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch. The English Civil War has become the best-known of these conflicts and included the execution of the Three Kingdoms' monarch, Charles I, by ...
Royal Academy of ArtsThe Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects; its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.== Purpose ==Identify members of...
British Coal Mine Workers=Coal mining in the United Kingdom probably dates to Roman times and took place in many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales, Yorkshire, Scotland, Lancashire, the East and West Midlands and Kent. During the 1980s and 1990s the industry was scaled back considerably. In 2013, there were t...
British Migration - Main Page The object of this project is to provide an index to the numerous projects dealing with this subject and also to give an overview of migration to and from Britain. The aim is also to provide links to resources and further reading available to researchers; contributions are very welcome! Please add projects to the relevant Sections and help researchers by adding lin...
Cometan, Astronic philosopher and founder of Astronism Bertrand Russell, philosopher, logician, and historian William of Ockham, Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher Susan Haack, philosopher and professor Henry Sidgwick, utilitarian philosopher and economist Catharine Trotter Cockburn, moral philosopher Bernard Williams, moral philosopher
Cometan, founder of Astronism Ian Mckellen, actor Eric Morecambe, comedian Steve Pemberton, actor Robert W. Service, poet Mystic Meg, astrologer Henry Tate, philanthropist
Cometan, philosopher and founder of Astronism Oliver Thorn, philosophy YouTuber Alex J. O'Connor, debater and philosopher Justin Sytsma, philosophy professor Dr Hannah Tierney, philosophy lecturer Gina Roussos, psychology graduate and philosopher
Project contact: Private User also: Notable Black Britons ==Notable BAME Britons==
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament.The Speaker presides over the House's debates, determining which members may speak. The Speaker is also responsible for maintaining order during debate, and may punish members who break the rules of the House. Unlike presiding officers of legislatures in many ot...
This project includes various lists of British (and Canadian) Regiments serving in Jamaica, West Indies.* 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.*Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help*Start your own relat...
British Mine workers (non-coal)= Pictured right Wealden Iron Ore Pits For British Coal Miners please go to: has occurred in Great Britain since approximately 2700 BC. A diverse range of minerals has been extracted by underground mining, ranging from industrial minerals such as limestone through to precious metals like gold. Plans, sections and shaft information exist, recording many of these wo...
Project contact: Private User Black Britons==* Diane Abbott, MP * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje * Zain Asher * Dido Elizabeth Belle * Floella Benjamin * John Boyega * Melanie Brown * Naomi Campbell * Franz Drameh
Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor Cometan, founder of Astronism Andrew Flintoff, cricketer Edith Rigby, suffragette Francis Thompson, mystic Joseph Livesey, social reformer Sir Tom Finney, footballer
Celebrity Masterchef - BritainMasterChef is a BBC television competitive reality cooking show which first ran from 1990 to 2001. It was later revived in a different format known as MasterChef Goes Large from 2005 onwards. In 2008, the "Goes Large" part of the name was dropped, but the format remained the same. The revamped format was devised by Franc Roddam and John Silver with Karen Ross produ...
Team GB Rio 2016 Summer Olympics ..... You Tube - Michael Nesmith ~ Rio A total of 366 athletes are competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. While significantly smaller than the 542-strong contingent at London 2012, it is the biggest squad sent to an 'away' Olympics since Barcelona 1992. In order to gain an accurate record please link onl...
Ancestors of Cometan=The ancestors of Cometan include those individuals whom are part of the currently eight families from which Cometan's two sets of grandparents are known to have descended from. For the project dedicated to the immediate family of Cometan, please click here .=Warbrick family= Warbrick family picture * Henry Warbrick (1896 - 1972), the father of Bill Warbrick and the great-gr...
century==In January 1914, British, German and U.S. military forces entered Haiti, ostensibly to protect their citizens from civil unrest at the time.[75] In an expression of the Theodore Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the United States occupied the island in 1915. U.S. Marines were stationed in the country until 1934, a period of nineteen years.Sisal was introduced to Haiti, and su...
This is a sub-project of the Child Emigration - Britain to Canada.This one is for the British and Colonial Emigration Fund children.On the whole the profiles linked to this project do not have any information about the parents, what they did in Canada or exact dates of birth. What they do have is a source document showing their immigration to Canada. Because of the numbers involved the names ar...