About the Armenis name Origin of the name The surname Armenis has its origin in the ancient Greek patronym attested to by the last male heir apparent to the independent kingdom of ancient Sparta, Armenis son of the Lacedæmonian king Nabis (Grk. Αρμένη ). King Nabis [Reign: 207 BC – 192 BC] was the last ruler under whom the Spartans had been a major power in ancient Greece. Gennaro Grande's th...
The Jewish vital records for Silesia are fragmentary and for many towns no longer exist. For this reason researching families for this region requires some creative searching. Prague Conscriptions (1850 - 1914) - Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Ernest Lanzer (1887 Teschen), lediger Reisender Vienna Heinrich Lanzer (1837 Karvina - 1899 Vienna) Heinrich Lanzer (185...
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited.[1] Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins.[2] Cousin mar...
It used to be found information that Prates are descendants of van Praet. According to that, Jàcome van Praet moved from Belgium (Antwerp) to Portugal. Probably because he was from a cadet branch. The King and the Portuguese Court received him very well. It´s said that generations after the family changed the surname to a Portuguese version (Prates) and then António Prates became Senhor de Póv...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Cunningham families , from earliest origins to near modern times. General Note If you would like to contribute to this page, please feel free to edit it. Click here for instructions about using Wiki markup language. Send a message to join us and collaborate. Line Starters Please list your earliest ...
This Project is created to bring together those with the Surname "Kaverin"/ "Koverin"
Welcome to the Gilbert Ancestors Family surname page. English (of Norman origin) French and German: from the personal name Giselbert composed of the ancient Germanic elements gīsil ‘pledge hostage noble youth’ (see Giesel ) + berht ‘bright famous’. This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages partly as a result of the fame of Saint Gilbert of Sempring...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Starbuck , Coffin , Gardner and related families, from earlier origins to near modern times Overview The Starbuck and Coffin families were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to t...
A surname DNA project is a genetic genealogy project which uses genealogical DNA tests to trace male lineage. Because surnames are passed down from father to son in many cultures (patrilineal), and Y-chromosomes (Y-DNA) are passed from father to son with a predictable rate of mutation, people with the same surname can use genealogical DNA testing to determine if they share a common ancestor wit...
The Doyle surname comes from the Gaelic name O Dubhghail , which means son ("O") of the dark ("dubh") stranger ("ghall"). The Doyles in Ireland are mainly found in Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford and Carlow. ==Resources==* Doyle at House of Names* Doyle at the Surname Database* Doyle at Irish Central* Doyle on the Ancestry.co.uk forums* The Doyle Clan , for descendants of Daniel Doyle and Anne Carb...
This project will properly document and organize Richard Sears, his descendants, and close relatives. If you are interested in joining please send a message to the project manager.Curators and project collaborators - please feel free to edit this about text.= Notable Profiles = Richard Sears Early settler who lived in both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony. Today, over 20,000 peo...
Scope == The surname Meehan is from the Irish Gaelic name Uí Miadhachain (oh mee-ach-awn) that derives from Miadhach , which means "honourable".There seem to be three major branches:* Uí Miadhachain - the original Meehan family that is said to be a branch of the McCarthys from Munster that settled in Country Leitrim, at Ballymeehan (then Ballaghameighan/Ballagh Meighan) and spread to the surrou...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" or cl...
Geneologija roda prezimena Čulinović (Culinovic, Culinovich, ....), migracija pojedinih članova obiteljskog prezimena Čulinović / Culinovic/ ...itd.Migracija / MigrationFor more details see in document: here Informacije iz / Information from: Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol.15 No.1 Prosinac 2006.TRAGOM SEOBA JEDNOG RODA (Pokušaj definiranja seobenih putova i smjerova) Sažetak: Praćenjem podataka o k...
Using the residence registration forms ("meldezettel") this project tries to collect all people with the Kafka surname (and similar forms like Kavka and Kaffka) living in 1930s/1940s Vienna.Contact me if you want to help: Philipp E. Kafka
Aabraham Kalle Erkinpoika Halmekangas Information about the surname Halmekangas The Halmekangas surname was first used in Toholampi . The first person to use the surname Halmekangas was Aabraham Halmekangas (Parhiala), who was born in Toholampi in 1841. Nowadays people with the Halmekangas surname live mostly in the United States. Everyone with the Halmekangas surname or maiden name descends...
Welcome to the Jones Ancestors Family surname page. ==Jones is a surname of Medieval English origins, derived from the given name John which in turn is derived from the Hebrew name Yochanan (Johanan). It is especially common in Wales and south central England.[1][2] In Ireland the surname has been Gaelicized as MacSeoin.(Source Wikipedia)All Jones Surname Families.
Ovo je projekt o povijesti, podrjetlu i cjelokupnom rodoslovlju obitelji prezimena Bulić (Bulich) iz Vranjica kod Splita i Solina.Rodonačelnik roda prezimena i obitelji Bulić iz Vranjica je Martin Bulić (* oko 1630, † poslije 1675.), sin Vida , koji je u Vranjic došao iz Ogorja.==Poznate osobe sa prezimenom Bulić==* BULIĆ, Ante, BULIĆ, Bruno, slikar, BULIĆ, Frane , (Vranjic kod Splita, 4. X 184...
Two sons, Andrew Andrej and Michael Mihovij Gašparović left Tribalj for St. Louis as single men and worked in their stone mason trade a couple of years. Shortly after the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair they returned to Tribalj where Andrew met my grandmother, Ursula Domijan, who he married in 1906. In 1908, after the birth of his son, Andrew Gašparović Jr, Andrew and Michael returned to St Louis, ...
Scope and aims ==Father Patrick Comerford has done a lot of research into the Comerford surname , registering it at the Guild of One Name Studies and posting his findings on his blog. He has cut through a lot of the unsubstantiated older family history and has pinpointed two origins for the name and its variants - Comberford in Staffordshire and Quemerford in Wiltshire near Calne. The Irish Com...
Welcome to the Johnson Ancestors Family surname page. ==Johnson Name MeaningEnglish and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University PressFrom is a ...
Lawton Name Meaning habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlaw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.variant spelling of Laughton.Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford Univer...
Welcome to the Brown Ancestors Family surname page. ==
Welcome to the Handley Ancestors Family surname page. Handley is a derivative of Hanley. Hanley Surname Meaning Irish: shortened form of O'Hanley an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁinle ‘descendant of Áinle’ a personal name meaning ‘champion’. This is the name of a former ruling family in Connacht and is now common throughout southern Ireland. English: habitational name from any of the many ...
Winemakers of the Minho River area - Portugal and Spain (especially in Galicia). Project to find the maximum amount of Ancestors & collaterals called Velloso (Veloso) from Portugal & Spain and build a connection with the Velloso's that immigrated to Minas Gerais State in Brazil. The original writing of the last name (family name) is Velloso or Vellozo. Later changed to Veloso because of the ...