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The Kindertransport (also Refugee Children Movement or "RCM'") is the name given to the rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostel...
British Television Actors=The following list is from Wikipedia. Please add any British Television Actors and Actresses to this project.Names below in bold are links to profiles on Geni.=A=* Amanda Abbington (born 1974)* Joss Ackland (born 1928)* Mark Addy (born 1964)* Adele (born 1988)* Jenny Agutter (born 1952)* Freema Agyeman (born 1979)* Caroline Aherne (1963–2016)* Laura Aikman (born 1985)*...
The Treaty of Windsor was a diplomatic alliance signed between Portugal and England on May 9, 1386, in Windsor and sealed by the marriage of King John I of Portugal (House of Aviz) to Philippa of Lancaster , daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. With the victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota, assisted by English archers, John I was recognised as the undisputed King of Portugal, putti...
Trying to gather all my royal ancestors in one place. Direct ancestors only. awillissam HEnry Whiting was a descendant of King James II, KIng Charles 1st and 2nd. He waS AN uRDU INTERPRETOR IN pUNJAB AAAAAAAA SSSSSSSSSSSSSKILL HE MAAY HAVE LearntAARNT FROM aBDUL kARIM (mUNSHI) His ancestry goes back to Charlmayne and Otto of the Holy ROman Empire. IT includes the dynasties: Normandy and WEs...
I-BY3805 har en undergruppe/gren: I-BY3806. Resultater: Famliy Tree DNA, Y-DNA Haplogroup Report for I-BY3805 I-M223 Y-DNA Haplogroup Project - Y-DNA Classic Chart The Norway DNA Project - Norgesprosjektet - Y-DNA Classic Chart Norway-NRL Nordland - Y-DNA Classic Chart Null425 Project - Y-DNA Classic Chart Artikler og bøker: "Vesterhavsøyene", i Store Norske Leksikon : Bråten, El...
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...
Knighthoods =Due to a duplication of projects please do not add profiles to this project as it is being merged into Knights >>> ===Please do not link profiles to this project -It is being merged!=== A knighthood (or a damehood, its female equivalent) is one of the highest honours an individual in the United Kingdom can achieve.While in past centuries knighthood used to be awarded solely for mil...
19th Century British Politicians Picture to right: General George Anson (1769-1849) British officer and politician who sat for many years as a Whig Member of Parliament. Image by Thomas Barber - BBC Your Paintings (now available by Art UK), Public Domain, Wiki Commons The list below is from Wikipedia UK MPs 1801–02 . Although there will be duplications through the years this is still...
RAF Badge The Royal Air Force ==United Kingdom===== Images - Left, Royal Airforce emblem by Royal Air Force - Public Domain, Wikipedia ; Right - Royal Airforce Logo Fair use, Wikipedia The purpose of this project is to give a short history of the Royal Air Force and to gather together Geni profiles of people who have served in the service.Please link any RAF profiles to the project regardless...
The past British Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks said: “Soul touched soul across the boundaries of faith, and there was a blessed moment of healing” . Photo . >> Lord Immanuel Jakobovits , a prior chief rabbi, was awarded the world's richest religious prize, the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, in 1991.The position of chief rabbi in the United Kingdom emerged in the 18th and early 19t...
18th Century British Politicians Image Right - George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton , PC, ADC (23 November 1751 – 22 October 1789) British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. Image by Richard Earlom - Public Domain, Wiki Commons It would be most helpful if when adding a profile you could please add it also to the alphabetical list below...
The Air Force Cross ( AFC ) ) is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy". A bar is added to the ribbon for holders who are awarded a second AFC.==History==The award w...
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England that provides training for film, television and theatre. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Herbert Beerbohm Tree.RADA is an affiliate school of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Its higher education awards are validated by King's College London (K...
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
Os ingleses começaram a chegar muito cedo aos países das Américas - Latina e do Sul - ainda na época das grandes navegações. Não vinham propriamente como imigrantes, mas sob a forma de negociantes e aventureiros, ou mesmo piratas. No Brasil, eles acabaram alcançando larga influência econômica, que foi muito acentuada entre 1835 e 1912, quando começou a declinar, muito lentamente.A influência br...
21st Century British Politicians =Because it is a contemporary list of people they will all be living. I would therefore suggest that the earlier centuries are a higher priority.Picture to right - Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell , DBE, PC (née Palmer; 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norw...
"No man of sense ought to be ashamed of being called a shopkeeper" - Napoleon ==This is a global project - everyone is invited to add their retailing ancestors to this project (profiles must be set to public). Project collaborators, feel free to update the project description, adding notes, documents, images, resources ... and inviting more collaborators.===See Notable Retailers ==Notes==From R...
The Order of Merit =The Order of Merit is a special honour awarded to individuals of great achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science.The Order was founded by King Edward VII at the time of his coronation in 1902, to be ‘given to such persons, subjects of Our Crown, as may have rendered exceptionally meritorious services in Our Crown Services or towards the advancem...
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) , officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian: Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta; Latin: Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis) and also known as the Order of Malta, is a Catho...
100 Greatest Britons (BBC Poll, 2002) 100 Greatest Britons (BBC Poll, 2002) 100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was based on a television poll conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considered the greatest British people in history. The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes featuring the individuals who featured in the top t...
Royal Victorian Order =The Royal Victorian Order is given by The Queen to people who have served her or the Monarchy in a personal way. These may include officials of the Royal Household, family members or perhaps British Ambassadors who have helped organise a State Visit to a particular country. The Order was founded in April 1896 by Queen Victoria as a way of rewarding personal service to her...
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , Royal Society =A Gathering of the greatest of minds.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existenceThe Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, a...
British Radio and Television Personalities Please link the profiles of people who have either presented or hosted programs on British Radio or Television or were born in the United Kingdom and are radio or television personalities in other countries. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listener...
The Merchant Navy is the United Kingdom maritime register and describes the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). King George V bestowed the title of "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War.===== Im...
Project contact: Private User Robert Backus, I (c. 1460-1503) ===Notable Descendants==* William Backus "The Immigrant" - 2nd Great-Grandson ( a founder of Norwich, Connecticut, USA )* Nathaniel Backus - 5th Great-Grandson (See: Nathaniel Backus House on Wikipedia )* Captain Elijah Backus - 6th Great-Grandson (a Patriot of the American Revolution for Connecticut. DAR Ancestor # A004349 . See "Th...