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This is the portal or master project for anything Cuban-related. For instructions on how to use Geni, refer to the Geni Help Portal Geni Cuban sub-projects Afrocuban Women Filmmakers Banana Wars Bay of Pigs Invasion Caribbean Migration (To and From U.S.) Prior to 1900 Chinese in the Caribbean
This project represents notable West Indian Americans and Caribbean Canadians . These are Americans with origin in the Dutch-, English-, and French-speaking lands of the Caribbean. Their population of 2,532,380 accounted for 0.83% of the U.S. population in 2008.The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin. Many Canadians identify as Black even though they may have multi-ethnic ancest...
This is the Portal or Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaican Portal: "Out Of Many, One People" : you will find links to online civil records across Jamaica that may be very helpful in your quest). Important Events in Jamaica's History What can you do here? Ask questions. Collaborate on your research. Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area...
In the 1800s, Chinese migrated to the Caribbean-bordered areas, including the Caribbean islands, Central America, and Mainland Caribbean (South America), including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad, and Guyana. See Chinese Caribbean - Wikipedia ==The Bahamas==Chinese-Bahamians have a long history, dating back to at least 1879. The original Chines...
This project if for those who have died in or as a result of a Hurricane Hurricanes are found in the following areas: From : the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E: Classified as a Hurricane Deadliness of Hurricanes 1780 San Calixto Hurricane affected Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Bermuda on 9-20 Oct ...
British slave owners “The #FridayFact was not only wrongly judged, in numerous respects it was just wrong.” THE LONG ROAD TO ABOLITION ■ In 1807, parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, effective throughout the British empire. ■ It wasn’t until 1838 that slavery was abolished in British colonies through the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British empire thei...
International Projects = International Help Portal Civil Registry and Church Records around the World Wonders of the World Ode to Joy - Anthem / European Union , Listen to 10 Top Anthems Please feel free to list your Project under (1) Country of Origin, or (2) Global Area of Interest. If a link doesn't work, just go to Projects Page and paste the project name in the search...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Return to USA Portal African, African-American and Caribbean thinkers have played a major role in defining the critical issues of our time, just as the cultures of Africans and their descendants have transformed the cultures of the Americas and the world. Source "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, an...
This project covers Caribbean peoples migrating to and from North America/the United Colonies (U.C.)/ United States (U.S.), prior to 1900. Starting about 1500. * A time-line of Latin America ==Arrivals in Caribbean from Europe==* Jews from Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Britain * See Albion's Seed project* Scottish and Irish prisoners and indentured servants* Cromwell's fleet arrived in J...
From: . The forebear of the Barbados Walcotts was Eyare Walcott who came to Barbados from London in 1659. These Walcotts became merchants and planters there. Their numbers grew in the following century (as the early marriage records in Barbados would indicate). The family ran a cotton plantation. the Todd estates, at Old Asylum wall. The Walcott name also evolved from the slaves there and from ...
The 1700's ~ List of Planters===* DeWint , Gerrit - and father and sons on St. Thomas== Handbook and Almanac of Jamaica Planters ==In 1832, before the abolition of slavery there were six hundred and fifty-three sugar estates in cultivation- over 500 coffee plantations.The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of £20 million to compensate the owners of all West Indian slaves for...
West Indies - Caribbean Region Master Project==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help*Start your own related project.*Add your profiles.*Start or take part in a discussion==How to Contribute==* Please clic...
The Darien Colony was founded by Scottish emigrants on November 3rd, 1698. But it all went horribly wrong. Richard Cavendish | Published in History Today Volume 48 Issue 11 November 1998 On July 12th, 1698 five ships carrying 1,200 eager colonists left the Port of Leith in Scotland to a rapturous send-off. Most of the ill-fated emigrants did not know where they were going and did not find out...
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
West-Indische Compagnie ‧ 1621-1791 ‧ Kamers van de WIC : AMSTERDAM in Amsterdam ZEELAND in Middelburg MAZE in ... 1622 : Kamer ter STAD en LANDE in Groningen - ⌘ - Kamer in het NOORDERKWARTIER aan de Binnenluiendijk in Hoorn - Noord-Holland - ⌘ internet:bronnen-documentatie-informatie-illustraties-boeken-etceteraa---> 1989 : Jaap JACOBS : 'De Scheepvaart en handel van d...
Summary==But a little known fact is that, aside from notorious pirates such as Captain Hook, Jack Sparrow and Long John Silver, many of the original ones to walk the plank were actually Jewish. In a fascinating new book entitled Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Kritzler delves into a sensational area of Jewish history which will no doubt delight pirate fans and non-fans alike. Kritzler, who ...
Welcome to the Bahamian Portal on Geni!==This is a project to focus on developing the profiles of the people of the Bahamas and members of the greater Bahamian diaspora on Geni. Special emphasis is made on using Bahamian sources, especially government records and credible Bahamian histories. Since modern Bahamians find their roots in many other ethnicities --Yoruba/West African, Mandinka, Bantu...
Dutch West India Company (Dutch: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie or GWIC; English: Chartered West India Company) was a chartered company (known as the "WIC") of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx (1567-1647). On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands...
Scope of Project===This is a project to focus on developing the profiles of the people of Bermuda and members of the Bermudan diaspora on Geni. Special emphasis is made on using Bermudan sources, especially government records and credible Bermudan histories. Since modern Bermudans find their roots in many other ethnicities -- this project aims to also provide information on how these people cam...
From 1648 through 1973, the Bahama Islands were mainly under British colonial rule, with governors appointed by the Crown and sent to Nassau to administer domestic affairs.Exceptions to British rule were limited. From 1657 to 1671 and from 1684 to 1686, the British government abandoned the colony due to its inhospitable nature and the belief it was unsustainable. The Spanish briefly took over a...
The objective of this project is to identify (forced) immigrants from India & Madagascar to Colonial America. Please start discussions, share resources, build trees, and add profiles to the project. Please create "related" projects for the Madagascar slave trade in other locations. And please ... invite collaborators to join in and contribute.==background==From Indian Slaves in Colonial America...
The history of the Jews in the Caribbean dates, according to some interpretations, back to Christopher Columbus and his first cross-Atlantic voyage on August 3, 1492, when he left Spain and eventually "discovered" the New World. His date of departure was also the day on which the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon decreed that the Jews of Spain either had to conv...
The main information is from the book, Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of a National Consciousness, by Richard Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, c. 2004, ISBN: 0719069858. Review of book The two main units mentioned and expounded upon in this marvellous book are the West India Regiment(s) (WIR), which was made up of mainly Jamaican...
Scotland has had direct social and economic links with the West Indies for nearly 400 years. Settlement started in 1626 when James Hay, the Earl of Carlisle, was appointed Proprietor of Barbados, an event which led to a number of Scots making their way to the island. (For a list of Scottish emigrants to Barbados, see Barbados and Scotland, Links 1627-1877, by David Dobson.) Later Scottish trans...
A Census of the White & Brown inhabitants & other Persons of Free Condition of the Parish of Hanover distinguishing their Sexes, Colour, Ages and places of Residence* bear with me. I'm working on making the file more readable for all.Name Gender Age Colour ResidenceVassall, Robert O. Male - White Abingdon Vassall, Christian Female - White Abingdon Vassall, John Male - White Abingdon Vasall, Mar...