
Russia (Russian Federation) Russia project is a networking forum for families researching their roots from Russian Federation or historical lands of the Russian Empire . The project is growing and we are inviting collaboration partners. It is easy to find more detailed projects from here, such as regional and locality projects. Many locality projects also include links to town- or settlement-le...
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania==== Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ( Abbr : MV ), anglicized as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, is one of the 16 states of Germany. It is located in the north-east of Germany with Schwerin as the state capital and with Rostock as the largest city. Other major cities include Neubrandenburg, Stralsund , Greifswald, Wismar and Güstrow.
Schleswig-Holstein=== Schleswig-Holstein ( Abbr : SH )is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig and most of the historical duchy of Holstein and. The capitolof the state is Kiel . Other notable town are Lübeck and Flensburg .== This project is aimed to cover individuals born, lived, influenced or died in Schleswig-Holstein as ...
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York State . This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion, and the Ontario Lowlands ecoregion of the Great Lakes Lowlands. Yet ...
History Pre-Columbian era Colonization Revolutionary War Industrial Revolution >Geology and physiography Regions The Hudson Valley is divided into three regions: Upper, Middle, and Lower. The following is a list of the counties within the Hudson Valley sorted by region. The Lower Hudson Valley is typically considered part of the Downstate New York region due to its geographical and cultural p...