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All welcome and encouraged to help us collate the Mac or McDonalds in Jamaica in the 1700s and 1800s. This is a Work in Progress long-term project, and will require lots of help from interested parties. Nobody is going to nitpick about formatting - give it a go - others will fix for you if you need it - and you can do the same for them. By map: MacedonianBoy - CC BY-SA 3.0, Map of the c...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Return to USA Portal African, African-American and Caribbean thinkers have played a major role in defining the critical issues of our time, just as the cultures of Africans and their descendants have transformed the cultures of the Americas and the world. Source "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, an...
This is the Portal or Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaican Portal: "Out Of Many, One People" : you will find links to online civil records across Jamaica that may be very helpful in your quest). 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...
Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European and mixed African and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish, European colonisation. An early influx of Scots came in 1656, when 1200 prisoners of war were deported by Oliver Cromwell.to the recently acquired English colony there. They were so...
Located on Rte. 100/30 next to the Masonic Lodge, Jamaica, Windham County, Vermont. Resources Find a Grave: Pleasant View Cemetery
Located off Rte. 100/30 near West Townshend in Jamaica, Windham County, Vermont. Resources Find a Grave: East Jamaica Cemetery
Highlanders and Lowlanders The Scots are not to be confused with the Scotch-Irish, who were Ulster Irish and emigrated from Ireland Scotch-Irish Americans and not in not this Project - We are tracing our ancestors who were born in Scotland and emigrated directly from Scotland to the American Colonies, Canada, and Jamaica. Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after ...
This project covers Caribbean peoples migrating to and from North America/the United Colonies (U.C.)/ United States (U.S.), prior to 1900. Starting about 1500. * A time-line of Latin America ==Arrivals in Caribbean from Europe==* Jews from Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Britain * See Albion's Seed project* Scottish and Irish prisoners and indentured servants* Cromwell's fleet arrived in J...
This project covers Indians that have left India in the last 300 years, and settled in different continents, regions and countries. East Indian Dispersion Blog (I'm working on a genealogy project for a friend. She is Trinidadian, but looking into where her family came from in India. I mentioned Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) as three main cities--British centers--of em...
This is the master project for Slaves in Jamaica. Naming conventions First name : Ned Middle name : (blank) Last name : (blank) Birth surname : (blank) Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, Ned the slave of Fred Ugly About : Any other information that may be helpful to other researchers Sources : All...
A Sub-project of The Jamaica Out of Many - One People Master Project A project about Jamaican slave owners, slaveholders, and their plantations. See for pictures. Naming conventions First name : Ned Middle name : (blank) Last name : (blank) Birth surname : (blank) Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, N...
This project focuses on all the Sephardic Marache / Marrache / Maratchi / Maradji / Marachi / Marratche / Marashe / Marash families. At the current moment there are five main sections of the family tree; Gibraltarian Marrache family, Peruvian Marrache family, the Tetuan Marrache/Maratchi family, the Tangiers Marrache family, and the Rabat Marrache family. One of the main goals of this project i...
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
Move up to Armistead Name Study Christing date, Country , Parish, Plantations, ImmigrationYr, Marriage, ________ A Armistead William Mitchell, july 16 1816 (christing)() Armistead Mary () Armistead Charles () Armistead John () Armistead Mary Elizabeth () Mary Elizabeth () Armistead Constant () Armistead Richard Scudimore ,feb 4th 1785 (christing)() Armistead Catherine, Nov 15th 1772 () B ...
Wikipedia York College of The City University of New York is one of eleven senior colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. It is located in Jamaica, Queens in New York City. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into a single public university system in 1961. ...
This project is to research and find out more about the Forrest and other related families, including Foster, originating in Jamaica, West Indies. Forrest Family of Jamaica My paternal great uncle was Bawder Forrest .== Stories from Australia ==Barbara Forrest, now Troth... I am decended from the Forrests from Jamaica. I saw your post on the Jamaican GenForum. I have been tracing my family tree...
Move up to Armistead Name Study
(This project is associated with the Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project and Jamaica Graves project).== Objective ==The objective of this project is to serve as a repository for all Jamaicans whose genealogical traces end in Jamaica in the 15th to mid-20th centuries (1498-1950). This project is for genealogical research that dead ends" at a certain point.Please add all your Jamaica...
"No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." -- Maya Angelou Check for DNA testingwww.23andme.com. www.gedmatch.com===Geni Subgroups=== Dowie DNA -Genetic Genealogy Explained Jamaica DNA Project recommends the 67-marker test.
This is sub-project of the Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaica Out Of many, One People"' .>>In 1700, there were more Jews in Spanish Town than in all of North America, and by 1730, Jews represented 12 percent of the white population of Jamaica. In the 18th century, Ashkenazi Jews began arriving from England and Germany, joining the Sephardi Jews who had begun to arrive a century earlier. In the...
(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project.)==Summary== and resources==* Female Models * List of Jamaicans * Quotes * Jamaican Poets * Heroes * Famous soccer players from Jamaica
Colonials who owned land and slaves in countries, not their homeland and traveled frequently. My concentration is in Jamaica and USA.The likely hood that an American Plantation owner had other Plantations and relatives in other countries is always possible. I know most of mine did, and this creates a problem for genealogy searches in Jamaica.If u know of or have ancestors who fit this descripti...
The main information is from the book, Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of a National Consciousness, by Richard Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, c. 2004, ISBN: 0719069858. Review of book The two main units mentioned and expounded upon in this marvellous book are the West India Regiment(s) (WIR), which was made up of mainly Jamaican...
This is the master project and clearinghouse for all Jamaican surnames and surname projects. Collaborators with knowledge on the origin of Jamaica surnames, especially of those who migrated from other countries to Jamaica, please Join and share. Subgroups Jamaica - Lost Traces Jamaica Graves Famous Jamaicans Irish in Jamaica Petticoat Rebellion Jamaican Planters Jamaica Fam...
Collaborators welcomed