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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in the city or county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Also known as "The City of Brotherly Love" and "Philly" Formerly the capital of the United States when Washington D.C. was being built.= Official Website = Please see Wikipedia for a full history. Adjacent Counties * Bucks County * Burlington County, NJ * Camden County, NJ * Gloucester...
The goal of this project is to use United States census records to document the Lithuanians living in various communities between 1920 - 1940 (e.g., Waterbury, CT, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia. PA, Grand Rapids, MI, etc.) This effort is part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project, to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that en...
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project, a group on Facebook.The goal of the Lithuanian Heritage Project is to 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.For more information on the project, please contact Ann Marie...
Wikipedia Temple University, commonly referred to as Temple, is a comprehensive public research university (formerly private) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The University was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell. As of 2014, more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are enrolled in over 400 academic degree programs offered at seven campuses and sites in ...
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark; few cemeteries have received this distinction.[4]Located in Philadelphia's East Falls section, the 74-acre (300,000 m2) cemetery overlooks the Schuylkill River. Laurel Hill contains more than...
Please add Geni profiles associated with the disease best known as "yellow fever" to this project. Collaborators, feel free to add sections to the overview. ===what it is===Yellow fever, known historically as yellow jack, yellow plague, or bronze john, is an acute viral disease. The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of the female mosquito.Yellow fever is know...
Wikipedia Saint Joseph's University (also referred to as SJU or St. Joe's) is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and the Lower Merion Township on the historic Pennsylvania Main Line. The University was founded in 1851 as Saint Joseph's College by the Society of Jesus. Saint Joseph's is th...
Wikipedia La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. The university offers traditional, online, and hybrid courses and programs. The university is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Chu...
Wikipedia =Drexel University is a private research university with three campuses in Philadelphia and one in Sacramento, California. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. As of 2015, more than 26,000 students are enrolled in over 70 undergraduate programs and more than 100 master's, doctoral, and professional programs at the university. Drexel's coop...
October 6, 1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. (Today in History, Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, October 6, 2011, p. B2).Germantown was founded by German settlers, thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families from Krefeld (Germany),[1][2] in 1681. Today the founding day of Germantown on October 6, 1683, is...
The Philadephia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers ) are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals , they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA, and one...
This project focuses on Jewish families and individuals of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Jews of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania can trace their history back to Colonial America. Jews have lived there since the arrival of William Penn in 1682.Jewish traders were operating in southeastern Pennsylvania long before Penn. The first Jewish resident of Philadelphia on record was Jonas Aaron. His name ap...
Har Nebo Cemetery is one of the oldest, Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In great disrepair, restoration efforts for this large, historic cemetery, began in late 2021.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional football franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles are members of the East division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Eagles have won three NFL championships and made two Super Bowl appearances, losing both. These were in 1980 (to the Oakland Raiders), and in 2004 (to the New England Pa...
This project is for those buried in Salem German Reformed Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
Woodlands Cemetery,Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 19104 USA: The Woodlands’ 54-acre undulating landscape is at once a one-of-a-kind 18th-century English pleasure garden, 19th-century rural cemetery, and a modern green oasis for its neighbors in bustling University City and West Philadelphia. The Woodlands was designated a National Historic Landmark District in recognition ...
The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. Considered the first learned society in the United States, it...
This Project will serve as a collection of all Mayor's who served in cities in Pennsylvania. Still under construction.
This project is for those who are buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. Mount Moriah Cemetery, situated in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania encompasses 380 acres with approximately 200,000 to 300,000 burials. In April 2011, the cemetery was abandoned and the Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, Inc. began working to restore the property, which had been neglected for m...
Wikipedia The Philadelphia National Cemetery is a cemetery in Pennsylvania north of Germantown. Find a Grave
This project is for all Port of Philadelphia Immigrant Arrivals. Please add your ancestors here.Excerpt from "Philadelphia: Immigrant City by Frederic M. MillerFrom the time of its founding in 1682, Philadelphia has been both an immigrant port and a city of immigrants. In fact, in 1683 when Dutch and German religious groups founded Germantown now part of Philadelphia they established the first ...
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...
===Passengers of the "Princess Augusta," arriving in Philadelphia, September 16, 1736. ===The Journey From >... Were it not for the St Blaise vital records of Ban de la Roche, the ship manifest of the Princess Augusta that sailed in 1736 may have looked like a document about individuals and not an entire region from Alsace. However, placing the manifest alongside the Ban de la Roche records, on...
A place to create an overview of the Import/Export Trade of the Island of Puerto Rico and other trade partners of the West Indies (Domincan Republic, Venezuela, Barbados, Virgin Islands, Hispanola, etc.) and a collection of the movers and shakers and deal makers. Please, feel free to collaborate and join and add pertaining profiles.
Prominent Jewish Philadelphians (and a few non-Philadelphians) whose portraits appear in====Fifty years' work of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia: 1848-1898====published by the Society, 1899. From the preface:===>The first meeting for the formation of a society whose purpose was the education of Jewish youth in the city of Philadelphia was held on March 7 1847. On June 4 1848, a Con...
Please add Geni profiles of members of the Carpenters' Company to the project, and index the Charter Members listed below. The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly...
In 1809 the Reverend William Cowherd established the Bible Christian Church, in Salford, as a breakaway from the Swedenborgian New Church in King Street, his congregation had to take a vow not to eat meat.Chapels were also established in Manchester at Ancoats and Hulme. The central idea of vegetarianism - that there is a kinship of all nature - stretches back 2500 years to the Greek philosopher...
In the project entitled "Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal" Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal , we have been discussing the possibility of adding Jewish profiles, in mass, by using US census data. There are a number of issues that may have to be overcome to utilize this data in the most efficient way.Since this is a general problem, not at all restricted to Jewish folks, I've ...