billiongraves.com/geni ==>>>>==Welcome to the BillionGraves Team Portal!==This is the home base for Geni users who want to help with the collaborative effort between Geni and BillionGraves to help photograph and transcribe all the world's gravestones in order to preserve them and their information for future generations. Any and all Geni users who wish to participate in any way are encouraged t...
Please add your memory making ancestors to this project. Writing a life story is "the invention of me" - and an unreliable source for genealogists.>"A memoir," says Gore Vidal, "is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked. In a memoir it isn't the end of the world if your memory tricks you and your dates are off by a we...
This page provides an overview of available genealogical sources in the Netherlands. It is immediately a place where Dutch people work together to improve the exchange of sources and information. Feel free to add good sources - or start a 'discussion' for discussion. The Dutch version of this project is more frequently updated and has more sources in Dutch. For broader information and question...
FINNISH Coffee Corner In this project you can add links to important sources of Finnish genealogy, documents and other relevant information. Sources in Finland (Finland's Family History Association - information even in English) (The Genealogical Society of Finland) (parish register information in English) (parish register information in Swedish) (parish register information in ...
This project is dedicated to tracing ancestors in Lithuania at its present territories and Lithuania Propria historical lands. This portal provides a list of online genealogy sources, such as registries and archives of Lithuanian documents. If you have Lithuanian ancestors or study ancestral lines deriving from Lithuania Propria, please follow and participate in this project. Lithuanian La...
Enslaved by Moses Liberty Jones Image is of Marlboro Jones , manservant of Randall Fleming Jones , who was the son of Moses L. Jones (1805 - 1851) Introduction: Short Overview The Jones family was one of the families in Liberty County (Georgia) U.S., who owned black people who were their slaves at their estates, plantations such as Green Forest, etc... One of family members who was Owner/...
DANISH Coffee Corner -2011-09-02-18:49-jMu-coöperate-collaborate-complete? welcome! addition of accurate -&- actual information more than welcome! Please join this meeting-point to improve your interests in genealogy. It has been started for people in Danmark looking for European ancestors and other Danish-speaking-geni-users who can share there information about how to find your relatives ...
The etymology and history of first names and surnames This is a umbrella project about sources and informations of etymology of first names and surnames, for the whole World, from a online and offline sources such as websites, books, articles, and other records. Aim of project The purpose and aim of this project is to share a informations with Geni users in Geni Community, in order to be in...
This is an umbrella project about sourcing in genealogy. Please don't add any profiles but feel free to collaborate and contribute. It's a large topic, so please set up "related" projects to cover more specific areas. Types of Sources Primary sources , which are the most trusted ones, are written at the time of the event, like the priest writing a baptism in a churchbook; or a firsthand acc...
Umbrella project: "working with sources" =Types of sources===Family Tradition==* Family Bible* interviews * privately published memoirs * family trees* scrapbooks* ... ==Records==* Birth / marriage / death * Military * Land * Wills (probate, inventory of estate)* Immigration (ship passenger lists)* Naturalization (denization)* Tax* Census* Business (invoices)* Correspondence* Directories (membe...
Umbrella project: "working with sources" The great satirist Ambrose Bierce defined genealogy this way: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. So how do we begin to find them? One of the steps to constructing a genealogy is by compiling records. ==Types of records==* Census Records* Military Records* Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Lists)...
The main aim of this project is to act as an umbrella project for the different archives in South Africa. The aim is to add as many sources from Archives on all profiles to add value to the profile and Geni in particular. This umbrella project do not have added sources or profiles Please park them here-* Only SOURCES to be linked to provincial projects underneath. * Transvaal Archives TAB * Fre...
The last will and testament is a valuable genealogical resource. It often includes the following:* Date of death* Place of burial* Properties owned* Family members and relatedness* Associations and position in society* Occupation* Mentions of family disputes* Personal items of value* Gratitude to special people in their lives* Acknowledgments and spiritual beliefsIf you join or follow this proj...
This project page aims to identify, comment and track genealogical sources that are commonly referenced on Geni but that are partially or totally flawed. The purpose is to encourage other Geni users not to use the data if those sources cannot give any reasonable justification for that data. This is essentially about websites that deliver genealogies derived from again other sources which may no...
List of County regions in Croatia with places, villages and towns. Hr | En Molimo povežite svoje projekte koji se tiču na području Republike Hrvatske | Please link your projects related to the Croatian territoryZa postojeće geni projekte po županijama, gradovima, mjestima, selima pogledajte detaljnije u: Hrvatske županije / Croation Counties For the existing geni projects by counties, cities, p...