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Yale University Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Incorporated as the "Collegiate School," the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college...
The Hartford Circus Fire , which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. The fire killed at least 167 people and more than 700 were injured. This project is a memorial...
This project is for those who were born,lived, and died in New Haven County, Connecticut.
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
This project is for those who were born,lived, and died in Windham County, Connecticut.
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Middlesex County, Connecticut. Middlesex County was formed from parts of Hartford and New London counties. Cities, Towns and Communities: Centerbrook - Chester - Clinton - Cobalt - Cromwell - Deep River - Durham - East Haddam - East Hampton - Essex - Essex Village - Fenwick - Haddam - Higganum - Ivoryton - Killingworth - Lake Poc...
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale. The society is known informally as "Bones," and members are known as "Bonesmen." Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale...
This project is for those from Connecticut. Instructions. If the the community is not list you can create it.If you do not know where in the State the person is from.Please place him in project any way. (Name of City,Town,Etc),(Name of County),(Name of State). Please go to following link for more information.
Hartford, Connecticut:
This project is for those that were born, lived and died in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" o...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia Fin...
This project is used to relate all units from Connecticut who served in the Union Army.
This project is for those who were born,lived, and died in Tolland County, Connecticut.
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Hartford County, Connecticut.
This project is for those who were born,lived, and died in New London County, Connecticut.
Starting with Kent family of Suffield, we'll collect, clean up, "MP," and write good profiles About Me narratives for the early families of Suffield, Connecticut. Please email Hatte Blejer or any of the collaborators to join the project if you are interested. The list from the above website is shown below. Feel free to add any additional families who settled early in Suffield, certainly tho...
In 1633 John Oldham from Watertown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony explored the Connecticut River. The following year he and some companions built temporary housing and passed the winter at Wethersfield. With the arrival of warmer weather other settlers, many also from Watertown, arrived from Massachusetts Bay. Wethersfield has its niche in history, being " Ye Most Auncient Towne " in Conne...
The Hartford Whalers were an American professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1997. Originally based in Boston, Massachusetts, the team joined the WHA in the League's inaugural 1972 season, and was known as the New Englan...
Groton, New London County, Connecticut:
This Geni project is meant as an unofficial companion piece to the excellent website Today in Connecticut History , which is a project of the Office of the State Historian of Connecticut and CT Humanities . Each day, the Today in Connecticut History website features a person and/or event important in state history. This Geni project compiles relevant genealogical profiles related to those dat...
About 30 heads of households settled in Farmington before 1655. Most of Farmington’s first settlers were men of modest though respectable rank in England – husbandmen, artisans, and yeomen, but among the first proprietors of the town (men who owned land but didn’t actually become settled inhabitants) men of gentry status in England and of the highest rank in the new colony, such as were Edward ...
This project is a sub-project of the The West Indies - Caribbean Region Master Project and Notable West Indian Americans and Canadians . Hartford, Connecticut, has more generations (4-5) of Jamaicans and Caribbean people. At one time, the mayor was Jamaican. (Philip Bedward, 3-5-12). Jamaican men first migrated to Connecticut for seasonal work on tobacco farms during World War II as part of...
The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located mostly in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its 350-acre (1.4 km2) main campus touches portions of three municipalities: Bloomfield, Hartford, and West Hartford. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highe...
Polytechnic Institute=Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut. It was founded in 1824 by Stephen van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes of life" and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world. Built...
in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard. Located in New London, Connecticut, it is the smallest of the five federal service academies. The academy provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of eight major fields of study.Unlike the other service academies, admission to the academy does not require a congressio...
This project identifies Geni Profiles for the New Haven Crypt. The Crypt contains the identified remains of about 137 people, and the likely remains of over 1,000 that are unidentified known crypt inhabitants, list uploaded as a Project document or on this link: New Haven Crypt Names Please join us as a collaborator, add your ancestor's profile, and if possible, link the profile in the "overv...
Please add profiles representing the "founding families" of Woodstock. Profiles must be set to "public.". The resources collected on the media gallery are available for all - and please do contribute more. A Brief History of the Town of Woodstock, CT From The Town of Woodstock : In 1636, Thomas Hooker and his party may have passed by way of the Connecticut Path, going to settle what is no...
Since 1864, Ceder Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut has served as the final resting place of some of the most important people in Connecticut and American history. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Cedar Hill Cemetery is a classic example of the " rural cemetery movement " that combines beautiful architectural and landscaping work with dignity for the deceased. Much mor...
) Trinity College Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut after Yale University. Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,300 students. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, with a student to faculty ratio of 10:1. The college is a member of the New England Small Colle...
Wallingford was established on October 10, 1667, when the Connecticut General Assembly authorized the "making of a village on the east river" to 38 planters and freemen. The “long highway” located on the ridge of the hill above the sandy plain along the Quinnipiac River is the present Main Street in Wallingford. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people settled in the t...
Please add profiles for the founders of Haddam, Connecticut to this project, and link to the index in bold when done. From A Brief History of Haddam Plantation at Thirty Mile Island In 1660 the Connecticut Colonial Legislature sent Matthew Allyn and Samuel Willys down the Connecticut River from Hartford to purchase land from the Wangunk Indian Tribe at the place the English called 'Land o...
Milford lies in New Haven County on Long Island sound and is separated from the township of Stratford on the west by the Housatonic river, and about 10 miles S.W. of New Haven. The town, one of the original six plantations of New Haven Colony, was established in 1639, two years after the Pequot War, by Reverend Peter Prudden (lot 40). First named Wepowage, the Indian name for the river that flo...
Norwich, Connecticut was founded in 1659 by settlers from Old Saybrook led by Major John Mason and Reverend James Fitch. They purchased the land that would become Norwich from the local Native American Mohegan Tribe. note: To become a Member by Descent it is necessary to provide documentation that proves your ancestry to one of the original proprietors. To apply, you will need an Applicatio...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Connecticut . Jews and Judaism in Connecticut . Wikipedia Jews of Norwich Connecticut A Century of Jewish Life in Norwich Connecticut Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Tracing the Jewish “pioneers” of Greenwich Back to the Land: Jewish Farms and Resorts in Connecticut, 1890-1945
University of Connecticut (UConn), is a land grant public research university located in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. The University of Connecticut was founded in 1881 and is a Sea Grant university and a member of the Space Grant Consortium. The university serves more than 30,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs.UConn is one o...
Links Naming Conventions Indian Tribes of Connecticut Indian Tribes of Connecticut Mahican The northwestern corner of Litchfield County was occupied by the Wawyachtonoc, a tribe of the Mahican Confederacy of the upper Hudson, though their main seats were in Columbia and Dutchess Counties, N. Y. Mohegan The name means "wolf." They are not to be confused with...
This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project. New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York. In one of the earliest Englis...
"Oh, hey...THEY were born in Connecticut?! If you were raised in Connecticut, or have lived here for any great length of time, you know all about "the usual" famous Nutmeggers we're taught about. Katharine Hepburn. Nathan Hale. Benedict Arnold. That guy from Cheers . Our greatest source of pride, Mark Twain, wasn't even born here. It's...not a big selection. This project is for learning abo...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . The state of Connecticut is one of the original Thirteen Colonies and the fifth state admitted to the Union. This portal is for people researching its residents, southernmost state in the New England region, Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, ...
List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut Please add profiles to this project. Feel free to ask for your state's oldest homes list, too ... | Henry Whitfield House | Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford| 1639 |Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. | Loomis Homestead | Windsor, Connecticut|Windsor| 1640-1688 | Ell from 1640, main house from 16...
Newark, NJ founders from Branford (New Haven) and Milford as well as Founders of Branford, CT. Plan to add Elizabeth, NJ Founders soon. Founders of Branford The list below is composed of families who were the first settlers in 1644 or came by 1667 when the New Plantation Covenant was signed after the migration to Newark, New Jersey. In cases where fathers and sons were both here during that...
The New England Order of Protection was fraternal benefit/mutual aid society serving New England. Its foundational principles were equity, benevolence, and charity. The Order was founded in 1887 and incorporated in Massachusetts. It had splintered off from the Knights and Ladies of Honor, which was one of the reasons the N.E.O.P. was always gender-inclusive. According to the N.E.O.P.'s founde...
As described, the member of the United States House of Representatives for the State of Connecticut.
This is a place for all men who served as members of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut during the 1636 - 1776 period, before it was replaced by the Connecticut General Assembly (which remains today). The seat of the Court was originally at Hartford, then began alternating with New Haven when that colony merged with the Connecticut Colony. Other information will be here when som...
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame=The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (CWHF) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Connecticut for their significant achievements or statewide contributions.The CWHF had its beginnings in 1993 when a group of volunteers partnered with Hartford College for Women to establish an organization to honor distinguished contributions by female role m...
Division of Land The schedule, though prepared before April, 1841, is found in the record-book amid the records of 1643. The schedule furnishes important aid in determining who were proprietors of the town in the first years of its history. While the division of lands was in progress, the name of the plantation was changed, by order of a general court held on the first day of September, 164...
Original Proprietors Of Hartford, CT., 1636 and History of Hartford Profile Biographical Summaries: The link below will open a document that contains fully cited profiles for all Hartford Original Proprietors formatted correct for geni.com profile "about me" sections. You should be able to simply copy and paste the citation into each profile :) [rstebbing] Full Profiles of Original Prop...
The first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut came to America as passengers on the Saint John. The company of settlers on the Saint John was led by the Reverend Henry Whitfield , who had been the rector of St. Margaret's at Ockley in Surrey since 1616. They sailed from England on 20 May 1639 under the command of a Captain Richard Russell, and arrived at New Haven (then Quinnipac), Connecticut, ...
American Descendants of the Higginson Family of Berkeswell Objective To check Geni tree presentation against the study by Clifford Stott, "The Higginson Family of Berkeswell, Warwickshire, and Its American Descendants," (NEGHR (171 (Summer 2017. part 2 is Fall 2017)), and reconcile any differences. Immigrants to America Capt. Robert Higginson to VIrginia Joanna Higginson to Virginia...
This subportal is part of the State of Connecticut Portal and the Education in the United States Portal . Welcome to the Education in Connecticut subportal! This subportal is part of the Education in the United States portal, which is in turn part of Geni's umbrella portal for all education-related projects. We hope this categorization makes things easier for you to find! If you h...
"Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see, this is the chief. ... You do not know what beauty is if you have not been here." -- Mark Twain on Hartford, 1868 In his 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today , Hartford resident Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) coined the term for the late 19th C. period of incredible wealth associated with the rise of white-collar employment...
The Rogerenes Traclng the sect no one has heard of A Geni research blog What is a Geni research blog? It's a collaborative adventure in fact finding and tree building. Please add entries, most recent on top, date stamped and with your name or initials. Free form musing invited, and pictures most welcome. If you upload them to the "media" section, you can also embed them in the pro...
The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony was signed on June 4, 1639. The free planters (founders of the New Haven Colony) who assented to the agreement are listed below: William Andrews Sgt. Richard Beckley John Benham Jarvis Boykin William Browning John Budd John Chapmen John Charles Ezekiel Cheever James Clark Sgt. John Clark, of the New Haven Colony John Co...
United States Senators from Connecticut List of United States Senators from Connecticut (from U.S. Senate web site-no links) List of United States Senators from Connecticut (with wikipedia links)
The Farber Collection is a photographs collection held by the The American Antiquarian Society Photographs of Sculpture on American Gravestones An unusual but valuable collection at the American Antiquarian Society is that of the photographs of grave markers. Old burial grounds are treasure houses of early American sculpture and of historical and genealogical information. As Harriet Merrifi...
Early families and people in Enfield, Connecticut.