Genealogy Projects tagged with Shepherds on the Geni Family Tree

Shepherd or Sheepherder

For Biblical shepherds, please see the Geni project The Holy Shepherds . Shepherding is among the oldest occupations, beginning some 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat and especially their wool. Over the next thousand years, sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested the Shepherd Neolithic industry of Lebanon may date t...