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This project is for profiles of people of Lithuanian heritage. This effort is part of The Lithuanian Heritage Project (LHP), a group on Facebook whose members work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members. Those wanting to join this project should b...
Inmigración italiana en Argentina La inmigración italiana en Argentina se refiere al movimiento migratorio más numeroso e importante que recibió históricamente la actual República Argentina, superando a aquella de los colonizadores españoles y los descendientes de esa población que se asentó en territorio hoy argentino previamente a la independencia. Los ítalo-descendientes son la mayor comunid...
Dutch emigration to America 1800-1950==This project Dutch emigration to America refers to Americans who are of full or partial Dutch heritage.An estimated 4.5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in Michigan, California, Montana, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. In 2013 1....
A imigração alemã iniciou-se em 1818 quando os primeiros colonos alemães são mandados para a Bahia. Em 1823, após a independência, foram criados os batalhões de estrangeiros, para garantir a soberania nacional. Então, a busca oficial por colonos (nesta fase, alemães) passou a ser uma política imperial. Em julho de 1824, os primeiros alemães chegam ao Sul do Brasil, sendo assentados à margem su...
Purpose A project intended to list ancestors that were the first to immigrate to the country now known as the United States of America. Many managers place a profile picture similar to the one on the right on their ancestor that emigrated from another country and arrived to build a new life in the U.S.A This project creates a data base of those pioneers. Your ancestor profiles added to this p...
Inúmeros fluxos de imigração ao Brasil ocorreram desde a chegada dos portugueses em 1500. Muitas árvores genealógicas brasileiras são interrompidas no antepassado imigrante. Este projeto tenta facilitar a identificação deles, de forma a estreitar a possibilidade de contato com as árvores de outros países. Também são listados os poucos índios autóctones dos quais se tem registro da descendênci...
Irish in New York==The aim of this project is to created a genealogical collection of profiles for Irish who settled in New York, this project includes all boroughs.The secondary aim of this project is to connect the Irish New Yorkers to their place or origin in Ireland. ==About the Irish in New York==The Irish community is one of New York's major and important ethnic groups, and has been a ...
Under construction 3em>= This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = Welcome! This portal is a place to gather and discuss all projects related to the many ethnic groups that make up the United States, today and in the past. We can also discuss best practices for running these projects on Geni; please use the "Discussions" link to the upper right. Note about Language In Germanic languag...
Azorean immigration in Brazil was encouraged by Portugal's interest in populating the territory of Brazil Colony, an alternative employed to prevent the exploitation of new Portuguese lands by other nationalities. The coming of Azorean immigrants is very linked to the immigration of Portuguese in Brazil. After possession of the land in the new world that belonged to Portugal, it showed no imme...
Oregon Pioneers will include those who emigrated to the Oregon Territory prior to the arrival of the railroad in 1872. The Oregon Genealogical Society has issued Pioneer Certificates to persons proving to be directly descended from a person who was residing in Oregon, or the Oregon Territory, prior to 1872 when the railroad arrived in Oregon. The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorpora...
Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizenship or permanent residence, but are of Lithuanian birth or descent. In 2019, there were an estimated 632,169 people in the U.S. who identified as being of Lithuanian origin or ancestry. Lithuanian Americans form by far the largest group within the Lithuanian diaspora. Chicago has historically had the largest number of Lithuanian Americans and th...
Valloner är en franskspråkig folkgrupp i nuvarsnde södra Belgien som utgjorde en stor del av invandringen till Sverige under stormaktstiden, och etablerade sig i svenskt bergsbruk. Under 1500-talet förbättrades smidesteknikerna ("vallonsmidet") i trakten runt Liège som hade utvecklats till den europeiska järnhanteringens huvudort. Vallonernas rykte i fråga om bergsbruk och järnhantering blev v...
Immigration Stories== Statistics can not tell the story of immigration, but people can . ==What is immigration?==* Immigration is the movement of people into a destination country to which they are not native or do not possess its citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens*Emigration is the act of leaving one's resident country w...
Ellis Island Name Changes - A Common Myth Most of us have heard stories about how their ancestors' names were changed "at Ellis Island." Completely false! Simply not possible. The passenger lists were created at the time of boarding and then copied to a second list that was used at Ellis Island for verification of each person coming off the ship. How did these stories begin? Think of it this w...
Migration Portal==This portal will function as an umbrella project for all projects on Geni related to migration Projects that can be included: * Related to emigration* Related to immigration* Emigration schemes or organised emigration.* Related to ports of arrival* Related to ports of departure ==What is migration?==Migration is the movement of people from one place in the world to anot...
WORK IN PROGRESS==========< BACK =====.* Exploration * Ships* Ports of Arrival * Settlement* Colonization* Independence* Genealogical Sources
Øyer is a municipality in Oppland County (Fylke), Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal and is located in the Sørdalen portion of the Gudbrandsdalen Valley. The river of Gudbrandsdalslågen (Lågen) flows through the valley. The Gudbrandsdalen Valley is mentioned extensively in the Heimskringla (Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson. In Oppland, Øyer is bor...
Bohemian and Czech Jews in American History Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Jews have lived on the territory of the historic Czech Lands for some 1,000 years. They have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural development of the country since the times of the Duchy and the subsequent Kingdom of Bohemia, through the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, and the Successor State...
This project deals with the family stories of the many Poles who emigrated from their homeland to the USA. The task of this project will be to try to give the people who are on the passenger lists a family history and perhaps even a link to the world family tree. It's also about filling out existing stories and expanding them further. We hope that this project will serve its purpose and that Ge...
Bound for South Australia Portal page for projects related to immigration to South Australia. Here is a video to get you in the mood: Bound For South Australia South Australia was an unusual settlement within the British Empire. Unlike the older colonies on Australia’s eastern seaboard there were to be no convicts, and this commitment to a ‘free’ settlement was fiercely maintained. Historians...
The Patria disaster occurred on the 25 November 1940 on the shores of Palestine next to Haifa. Killing 267 people and badly injuring 172 Jewish refugees from the Nazis of occupied Europe. Most of them came from Czechoslovakia. At the time of the sinking, Patria (French-built ocean liner) was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, most from Czechoslovakia. Upon apporac...
Canadian Americans is are Americans whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian, or citizens of either country that hold dual citizenship. The term "Canadian" can mean a nationality or an ethnicity. Canadians are considered North Americans due their residing in the North American continent. English-speaking Canadian immigrants easily integrate and assimilate into northern and western American ...
In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...
The municipality of Stange is situated on the east side of the lake Mjøsa. It borders the municipalities of Hamar on the north; Løten, Våler, and Åsnes to the east; Nord-Odal to the south; and Eidsvoll to the west. Stange consists of several areas that were previously distinct, including Vallset, Romedal, Espa, Åsbygda, Tangen, and Stange itself. The municipality can be roughly divided into two...
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....