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Split's Immigrants from other Countries by the Beginning of 19th Century and Their SurnamesAt the beginning of the 19th century, Split has seen a rapid increase in population by influx of people migrating from all over Dalmatia, the Apennine peninsula, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and some Mediterranean and European countries. They were doctors, administrative staff, music teachers, craftsmen, s...
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...
It used to be found information that Prates are descendants of van Praet. According to that, Jàcome van Praet moved from Belgium (Antwerp) to Portugal. Probably because he was from a cadet branch. The King and the Portuguese Court received him very well. It´s said that generations after the family changed the surname to a Portuguese version (Prates) and then António Prates became Senhor de Póv...
Cemetery Name: Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial* Cemetery Location: Pas de Calais,France* NZ Casualties: 446* Total Known Casualties: 446==Location Information:==Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial is situated in Grevillers British Cemetery.Grevillers is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume.From Bapaume take the RD929 in the direction of Amiens, turn imm...
Napoleonic Wars= Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly as Napoleon'...
World War I ( WWI ) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based o...
The House of Normandy is the usual designation for the family that were the Counts of Rouen, Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England which immediately followed the Norman conquest of England and lasted until the House of Plantagenet came to power in 1154. It included the Viking Rollo and his descendants, and William the Conqueror and his heirs down through 1135. After that it was disputed betwee...
French people and their descendants in Russia
Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise doit son nom à François d'Aix de La Chaize , plus connu comme le père Lachaise qui, en ce lieu, possédait une maison de campagne en dehors des murs de Paris (du 17ème siècle). Cimetière du Père-Lachaise NL: Aanvullen-meewerken-corrigeren? Welkom! Graag met profiel-&-document-link of via discussie-bijdragen en voor wie wil samenwerken: uitbreiding van pagina-d...
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. Amongst the first Huguenots to come were Francois Villion (Viljoen) (who might rather be a Walloon) in 1671, Pierre le Febre in 1683, Jean de...
The Duchy of Alsace was a large political subdivision of the Frankish Empire during the last decade and a half of Merovingian rule. It corresponded to the territory of Alsace and was carved out of southern Austrasia in the last decade of the reign of Dagobert I, probably to stabilize the southern reaches of Austrasia against Alemannia and Burgundy. By the late Middle Ages, the region was consid...
Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939. The camp was originally set up in southwestern France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime. At the start of the World War II, the French government interned Germans and citizens of other Ax...
The University of Paris (French: L'Université de Paris), often known as the Sorbonne or la Sorbonne, was noted as one of the first universities to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid-12th century in Paris, France, officially recognized between 1160 and 1250.[1] Following the French Revolution, its activities were suspended from 1793 to 1896. With the growth of higher education i...
Coat of Arms This project is dedicated to The Capetian dynasty a subsequent branch of The Robertians , and its direct descendants. I'm sure there are A LOT of them, so if you would like to contribute, please message me. The Capetian dynasty (/kəˈpiːʃən/; French: Capétiens), also known as the House of France, is a dynasty of Frankish origin, and a branch of the Robertians. It is among ...
Victimes de la Révolution française== French Portal about the French Revolution on Wikipedia LIST OF THE VICTIMS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (you can use this list to find, create and add profiles to this project. Of course no "stand alone" profiles :-))===14 juillet 1789, prise de la Bastille===* Bernard Jourdan , marquis de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille (1740-1789), assassiné le 14 juillet* ...
Bucquoy Road Cemetery is situated on the D919 heading south from Arras to Ayette. The Cemetery is on the right-hand side of the road, 9 kilometres from Arras, just before a crossroads with the D36 between Ficheux and Boisleux-au- Mont. In November 1916, the village of Ficheux was behind the German front line, but by April 1917, the German withdrawal had taken the line considerably east of the ...
A imigração Francesa Afora a invasão francesas ao Rio de Janeiro e ao Maranhão ainda durante o século XVI, a primeira grande leva de franceses ao país aconteceu com a transferência da família real e da corte portuguesa para o Brasil, em 1808. D. João VI patrocinou a vinda da Missão Artística que trouxe ao Brasil, em 1816, franceses como o pintor Joachim Lebreton com o seu secretário Pierre Di...
War of the Spanish Succession= See Wikipedia... The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. As France and Spain were among the most powerful states of Europe, such a unification would have drastically altered the European balance of ...
French Revolutionary Wars= French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. Marked by French revolutionary fervour and military innovations, the campaigns saw the French Revolutionary Armies defeat a number of opposing coalitions and expand French control to the Low Countries, Italy,...
(...)===Carolingiens et leurs épouses ( Wikipedia... )===# 751 – 768: Pépin le Bref # 768 – 771: Carloman I # 768 – 814: Charlemagne # 814 – 840: Louis I # 840 – 877: Charles II # 877 – 879: Louis II # 879 – 882: Louis III # 879 – 884: Carloman II # 884 – 887: Charles le Gros # 888 – 898: Eudes # 893 – 922: Charles III # 922 – 923: Robert I # 923 – 936: Raoul # 936 – 954: Louis IV # 954 – 986: ...
En 1852, la première personne réelle à être représentée est, de son vivant, le président de la République Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Le premier défunt honoré est Louis Pasteur sur une série d'usage courant en 1923, inaugurant les premiers timbres sur des personnages célèbres.* Dernière mise-à-jour le 26 octobre 2017 Année en cours 2017 (ref. et remerciements à Bernard Le Lann )== A ==* Claude de...
Background of the Movements===== The French Resistance movement is an umbrella term which covered numerous anti-German resistance groups that were based within France. ===There were a number of resistance movements, some that took direct orders from the Special Operations Executive , there was the communist resistance, groups loyal to de Gaulle , regional resistance movements that wanted indepe...
Cemetery Name: Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial* Cemetery Location: Somme, France* NZ Casualties: 1205* Total Known Casualties: 1205=====Image Right Courtesy of CWGC ==Location Information:==Longueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and 10 kilometres south of Bapaume.The Memorial is situated on a terrace in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, which lies a short distanc...
NOTE: This is an umbrella project that will contain a number of sub-projects, so at this time there will be no profiles added to this overview project.For a discussion of naming conventions for this period, please refer to this discussion thread: [Naming Conventions: Medieval Europe (esp France and England) ]For a general discussion about the Anglo-Norman genealogical project, please see: [Cura...
The World War I Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in France is sited on a gentle slope typical of the open, rolling Picardie countryside. The 14.3-acre cemetery contains the graves of 1,844 of our military dead. Most lost their lives while serving in American units attached to British armies, or in operations near Cantigny. The headstones, set in regular rows, are separated into four plots b...
Prime Ministers of France= Premiers Ministres de la France .____________________________________________________* 1589-1610 : Maximilien de Béthune , duc de Sully* 1610-1617 : Concino Concini , marquis d'Ancre* 1624-1642 : Armand Jean du Plessis , cardinal de Richelieu* 1642-1643 : -* 1643-1661 : Giulio Raimondo Mazarini , cardinal Mazarin* 1661-1683 : Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(This portal is associated with the Portail français , the portal for French-speaking Geni users)=====.This is the access point for the global Geni user community to French-speaking users and French-language sources. This portal helps you to find... * French-speaking users who can help you with your research* access to online sources in French-speaking countries and regions , such as registries...
Wöhl / Woehl family that originated in Oberseebach, Bas-Rhin, France. A good number of them migrated to Welland County, Ontario, Canada and settled. A select number emigrated to Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA.The surname can be seen written in a number of ways depending on where they are using the name. In Oberseebach it was Wöhl and in North America and other places that have issues with ...
Wikipedia =The College of Sorbonne (French: Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), after whom it was named.[1] With the rest of the Paris colleges, it was suppressed during the French Revolution. It was restored in 1808 but finally closed in 1882. In recent times it came to refer to the group of academic facult...
French immigration in Argentina=French Argentines (French: Franco-Argentins; Spanish: franco-argentinos) refers to Argentine citizens of full or partial French ancestry or persons born in France who reside in Argentina. French Argentines form one of the largest ancestry groups after Italian Argentines and Spanish Argentines . Between 1857 and 1946; 261,020 French people immigrated to Argentina....
Introduction=This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project .New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763. At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), t...
From the1890s to the 1930s, 1/3 of the population immigrated from the parish of Czernielów Mazowiecki and its neighbouring villages (Bajkowce, Borki Wielkie, Czernielów Ruski, Czołhańszczyzna, Kujdańce, Rusianówka, Romanówka, Stupki, and Smykowce). The purpose of this project is to help researchers connect the original settlers to their ancestors in Austria/Poland. Due to volume, this proje...
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...
The Saint Helena Medal (French: Médaille de Sainte-Hélène) was the first French campaign medal. It was established in 1857 by a decree of Emperor Napoleon III to recognize participation in the campaigns led by emperor Napoleon I. Emperor Napoléon I, creator of the Order of the Legion of Honour and various other orders, never instituted commemorative campaign medals for his soldiers. In time, m...
Trying to gather all my royal ancestors in one place. Direct ancestors only. awillissam HEnry Whiting was a descendant of King James II, KIng Charles 1st and 2nd. He waS AN uRDU INTERPRETOR IN pUNJAB AAAAAAAA SSSSSSSSSSSSSKILL HE MAAY HAVE LearntAARNT FROM aBDUL kARIM (mUNSHI) His ancestry goes back to Charlmayne and Otto of the Holy ROman Empire. IT includes the dynasties: Normandy and WEs...
The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō, lit. "War of the Year of the Yang Earth Dragon"), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.The war was founded in dissatisfaction among many nobles and young samurai with the shogunate's handli...
Le duché de Bourgogne est fondé en 880 à partir du royaume de Bourgogne, par les rois carolingiens Louis III et Carloman II et les membres princiers de leur famille qui se partagent l'Empire carolingien de Charlemagne dont ils ont hérité. Ils féodalisent tous les royaumes carolingiens de France en duchés et comtés vassaux des rois de France.Richard II de Bourgogne (dit Richard le Justicier) est...
Notable peoples of diasporic Basque descent =* Simón Bolívar , 2nd President of Venezuela* John Sevier , 1st Governor of Tennessee* Ted Williams , American professional baseball player and manager.* Jedediah Smith , American explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the nineteenth century.* Michel Bastarache , Canadian settler, noted for his role in the e...
* Country: France* Locality: Nord* Identified Casualties: 2145=====Image By Wernervc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, ==Location Information==Armentieres is a town in the Department of the Nord, on the Belgian frontier, 14.5 kilometres north-west of Lille. From the town of Armentieres take the D945 to Estaires. Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery is signposted off this road just before Erquinghem-sur-la-Ly...
There's a lot to clean up in this area, in part because parts obviously are confusing to many people, in part because some of the sequences have been revised recently by historians.For this project we mostly care about the hereditary counts, mostly belonging to the House of Rouergue , not the previous counts appointed by the French kings.From Wikipedia : The first Counts of Toulouse were the ad...
Lo straniero / The Stranger (1967 film, Italy) Directed by Luchino Visconti Crew Producers: Dino De Laurentiis , Alfredo De Laurentiis , Pietro Notarianni and Marcello Mastroianni Written by Luchino Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico . The story is based on the 1942 novel L'Étranger by Albert Camus .
Hundred Years' War= Hundred Years' War was a series of separate conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France and their various allies for control of the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois controlled France in the wake of the House of Capet; a Capetian cadet bran...
Par un décret du 4 avril 1791, l'Assemblée nationale décide de consacrer le Panthéon à Paris comme nécropole accueillant les cendres des personnalités exceptionnelles qui ont contribué à la grandeur de la France. L'inscription sur le fronton du Panthéon porte l'hommage 'AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE'. La décision d'inhumation au Panthéon appartient au président de la République fra...
le Prix Goncourt ‧ French literature ‧ since 1903* * * ==Les présidents de l'Académie Goncourt* Alphonse DAUDET ‧ 1897- ‧ * Joris-Karl HUYSMANS ‧ 1900-1907 ‧ * Léon HENNIQUE ‧ 1907-1912 ‧ * Gustave GEFFROY ‧ 1912-1926 ‧ * J.-H. ROSNY aîné ‧ 1926-1940 ‧ * J.-H. ROSNY jeune ‧ 1940-1945 ‧ * Lucien DESCAVES ‧ 1945-1949 ‧ * Colette ‧ 1949-1954 ‧ * Roland DORGELÈS ‧ 1954-1973 ‧ * Hervé BAZIN ‧ 1973-1...
Battle of the Somme= Image Right - Thiepval Memorial to the British Missing of the Somme ===== Image by Amanda Slater, from Coventry (England) - flickr , CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki Commons *The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Sommeschlacht), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 14 November 1916 in the Somme department ...
This project will include the various rulers of the French southeastern province of Provence from the Merovingian Period (when it was part of Gaul) through the 15th century.An excellent list of these family connections during the various periods may be found on the Provence page of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy's Medieval Lands database.There's also a great page in French at Listes des ...
If in your family tree you have Lithuanians who were serving within Napoleon's Great Army (La Grande Armée), please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description there would be a brief biography added. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project - Lithuanians Within Napoleon's Great Army . You must be among collabo...
. . Project collects Performers of the premieres Greatest performers Persons are sorted on this page by roles and birth years . . . Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Opera semiseria in two acts, in French Music by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Henri Auguste Barbier. The story is inspired by the memoirs of the Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini , althoug...
. . Project collects Performers and collaborators of the ballet La Sylphide Persons are sorted by roles and birth years . . La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bournonvill...
. . Project collects Performers of the premieres Greatest performers Persons are sorted on this page by roles and birth years . . . Léo Delibes: Lakmé Opera in three acts, in French Music by Léo Delibes Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gilles Based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahmane" and novel " Le Mariage de Loti " by Pierre Loti Time: India...
The Collège de France is a renowned higher education and research establishment (grand établissement) in France. It is located in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles.It was established in 1530 by King Francis I of France, modeled after the Collegium Trilingue i...
Introduction The King's Daughters (French: Filles du Roi; Filles du Roy) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by Louis XIV . The program was designed to boost Canada's population both by encouraging male immigrants to settle there, and by promoting marriage, family formation and th...
Scope===Scope of this project is to look in to the history of the huguenots in Britain and to indentify those who came and settled in Britain.=The Huguenots=An estimated 50,000 Protestant Walloons and Huguenots fled to England, about 10,000 of whom moved on to Ireland around the 1690s. In relative terms, this could be the largest wave of immigration of a single community into Britain ever. Of t...
Families Cauchon, Maupas and Moët, Goujon, etc.==Project created for purpose to collect and find all trace with not yet connected branches, all family members, through history to today around World, and connect all yet unconnected branches based and following at below useful sources. Join to the project, You are welcome. Feel free add any profile with the all surnames in this project were menti...
INDEX of the PROJECTS NEEDED for the provinces of origin of the French Huguenots: * Please come & join & help. Here is a Template for a Huguenot Province of Origin Project .=Provinces* 1 Isle de France (Paris)* 2 Berri** Berthault de Saint-Jean * 3 Orléanais ** Avice, Basché, Bruère, Cellier, Cordier, Couvret, Foucher, Godefroy, Grillon, Le Roux, Machepasté, Martineau, Rétif, Rousseau, Russaar,...
For naming conventions, see Medieval Kingdoms of Western Europe . Orléans is the name used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty's founder, Hugh Capet. It became a tradition during France's ancien régime for the duchy of Orléans to be granted as an appanage to a younger (usually the second surviving) son of the king. While e...
Notable Huguenot descendants - Britain=>>> ===Arts, Entertainment and sports===* Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens*Tony Cottee, West Ham United and England footballer* Piers Courage , English racing driver*Phil de Glanville, England rugby union international (private profile)* William De Morgan , British art potter, tile designer, and author*G.E.M. de Ste. Cr...
The Order of Agricultural Merit (French: Ordre du Mérite agricole) is an order of merit bestowed by the French Republic for outstanding contributions to agriculture. When it was created in 1883, it was second in importance only to the Legion of Honour within the French order of precedence. Partial list of recipients:Commanders: Queen Anne, Queen Consort of Romania Gerrit Braks Princess Carolin...
Presidents of France=Depuis la Révolution française, et l'abolition de la monarchie absolue, la France a connu cinq républiques sous des constitutions différentes.Voir/See Site officiel de la Présidence de la République =====Since the French Revolution, and the abolition of the absolutist monarchy, France has known five republics under differents constitutions.=====# 1792-1804 : Première Républ...
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
La Profanation de Saint-Denis (1793)======WORK IN PROGRESS=====.After the French Revolution (1789), and during Robespierre's Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the French National Convention ordains the exhumation and destruction of all royal tombs. In October 1793, the profanation of the tombs at the Basilica of Saint Denis is executed. This basilica has been the necropolis for the kings and queens ...
Musée du Louvre ‧ Paris ‧ France==Ⓥlemish 21x - *==Ⓢpanish 14x- * Francisco de GOYA Y LUCIENTES The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa de La Solana 1794-95*==Ⓕrench 81x - * Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (Valenciennes 1684- Nogent/Marne, 1721* Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 – Paris, 1863)* Fouquet* Poussin* Le Brun* Boucher* Chardin* David* Ingres* Géricault*==Ⓓutch 32x - *==Ⓔnglish 8x - *==Ⓘt...
The Malbon Family are descendants of William Malbank, First Baron of Nantwich . He arrived in Britain with Hugh Lupus in 1069 and was made one of the eight barons of the palatine county of Cheshire, gaining lands across southern Cheshire and northern Shropshire. Specifically, as the Third Baron of Nantwich had no male heirs, the Malbons descend from Philip Malbank , the younger son of the Secon...
Cimetière de Nervieux, Nervieux, Departement de la Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France : Surname Index 8/31/2021
Les règles de succession du comté de Provence voulaient que les fils d'un comte lui succèdent ensemble et règnent sur le comté de manière indivise. Le comte Foulques Bertrand posséda aussi en propre le château de Forcalquier. La famille comtale de Provence s'éteignit en 1093 et trois familles se partagèrent ensuite la Provence, la maison de Toulouse, celle de Barcelone et celle d'Urgell. Les co...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - France: Survivors= Please add to this project any profiles of those who suffered but survived 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 assist...
1918 Influenza pandemic - France: Fatalities= Please add to this project any profiles of those perished in France during 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 assis...
Ce projet est un 'projet directeur'. Il regroupe des projets relatifs au governement de la France et ses acteurs: rois, présidents, premiers ministres...Les projets donneront quelques explications par rapport à la façon que la monarchie et la république ont évolué en France. Mais, surtout, ils mettent en évidence les principaux acteurs. Ainsi, ces projets constituent une base permettant d'ident...
This Group will focus on cleaning up and expanding the genealogy for the French Canadian Ancestors.Links to those listed in Our French-Canadian Ancestors by Thomas J. Laforest (listing still in progress)Volume 01 Antoine Dionne (1641-1721) , Damien Bérubé (1647-1688) , Grégoire Deblois (1632 - 1705) , Guillaume Couture (1618-1701) , Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine (1621-1692) , Nicolas Audet di...
Chapters to be added: 'Geopolitical context'...=Objective of this Project=The objectives of this project are...* To connect the major actors around the Cathar movement and the ensuing inquisition across regional boundaries - and thus to gain better insight into a phenomenon that had significant consequences for the political shape of modern Spain and France.* To provide entry points for genealo...
The Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery (French: Cimetière Américain (Meuse-Argonne)) is a 130.5-acre (52.8 ha) World War I cemetery in France. It is located east of the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in Meuse. The cemetery contains the largest number of American military dead in Europe (14,246), most of whom lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and were buried there. The cemeter...
The French arrived in Mexico from the colonial period, within religious orders of the Franciscans, Dominicans and Jesuits. In the nineteenth century during the French intervention, immigration, in addition to the military invaders, was increased. later, during the Porfiriato, due to the great interest of the own Porfirio Diaz and the Mexican government for French culture and everything from Fra...
The Huguenots in Ireland =Around the start of the eighteenth century, as Irish conditions became more settled, two groups of continental Protestant refugees were settled in the country with official, or semi-official help. The first of these, the Huguenots , were French Calvinists persecuted intermittently by the Catholic rulers of France throughout the seventeenth century. The second group wer...
For naming conventions, see Medieval Kingdoms of Western Europe . The Capetian dynasty is the largest and oldest royal house of Europe. It was founded in 987 when Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg , both descending from the House of Bourbon .=Cadet branches=The Capetian Dynasty has been broken many times into (sometimes rival) cadet branches. A cadet branch is a line of descent from another line t...
This project identifies the 72 people engraved on the Eiffel Tower. == Overview ==On the Eiffel Tower, seventy-two names of French scientists, engineers and some other notable people are engraved in recognition of their contributions. This is according to the design by Gustave Eiffel. The engravings are found on the sides of the tower under the first balcony. The engraving was painted over at t...
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial honours all Canadians who served during the First World War. The Memorial bears the names of those who died in France with no known grave. It is located at the site of Canada’s victory during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. (from Veterans Affairs Canada)At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:TO THE VALOUR OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN IN THE...
ENNERY, MARCHAND French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born at Nancy 1792; died at Paris Aug. 21, 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in Mayence. He went to Paris, became teacher in the family of a wealthy coreligionist, and in 1819 was appointed director of the new Jewish school at Nancy. At this time he published his Hebrew-French lexico...
Genalogy of the Rachor familes===Familiengeschichte der Familien Rachor====Informationen zum Wappen der Familien Rachor:== Wappenbeschreibung: ===Unter rotem Schildhaupt, darin drei weiße Spitzen, in weißem Grund grünes Eichenlaub mit aufrecht stehendem silbernen Schwert.=======Wappengeschichte:====Der "Fränkische Reschen" deutet auf die fränkische Abstammung der Rachor - Sippe hin (Vergleich F...
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...
------------------------------------>>>=The Cognevich Family ProjectOne of the goals of this project is to find a link and establish a tie to the Konjevic family in Montenegro, Croatia or any other country that was once part of the former Yugoslavia. >>> Please help by adding all known people with the surname "Cognevich" to this project. # Štefan (Konjevic) Cognevich (1812 - 1860)# Alexandrine ...
Nine Years' War= Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg[3] – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles I...
Governors of French India=..._____________________________________________________==Contexte historique (Historical Context) == (Under construction) ===Commissaires (Commissioners) ===* 1668-1672 : François Caron * 1672-1681 : François Baron* 1681-1693 : François Martin* 1693-1699 : Occupation hollandaise (Dutch occupation) ===Gouverneurs-généraux (Governors General) ===* 1699-1706 : François M...
—2012-jul-30-00:45+GMT-summer-time—jMu—=France ‧ 2012 ‧ Summer Olympics* [ •-Participants-%E2%80%A7-Sports-%E2%80%A7-Hosts/11987 FR : Ce project ... EN : This project focuses on the athletes who are expected to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and to keep in mind those who were succesful earlier. Since some sports are still holding their national team trials and qualifications,...
____________________________ Rohel Name - All About ____________________________* Name is of Dutch (Netherlands) origin - and/or - variant of the Surname ROCHELLE (English origin).… *see Rohel About bottom of project & on web link above...____________________________ Family Trees on Geni ________________________ Czech Republic (WFT = World Family Tree, non-WFT)# Martin Rohel (ca. 1615 Jakubín, ...
The France and Germany Star is a military campaign medal, instituted by the United Kingdom in May 1945 for award to subjects of the British Commonwealth who served in the Second World War, specifically for service in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands or Germany and adjacent sea areas between 6 June 1944 and 8 May 1945.One clasp, the Atlantic Clasp , was instituted to be worn on the m...
Douadic Internment Camp (France) Période d'activité: 1939-1945 Superficie: 8 hectares : bâtiments en dur et baraques Population internée: Prisonniers de guerre, réfugiés français et étrangers, juifs raflés dans l'Indre Lieu dit : de l'Etang du Blanc Commune : 36300 Douadic Canton : Le Blanc Département : Indre Région : Centre-Val de Loire Pays : France Le Camp de Douadic...