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A project for DAR members to meet each other, and for non-members to find ancestors that enable them to join. Use the related projects below to help focus your DAR research goals. Geni Project - DAR Patriots Geni Project - DAR Descendants Geni Project - DAR Daughters Search the DAR "The Daughters of the American Revolution is a charitable organization that requires members be wom...
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...
Primarily for early colonists of French and Spanish Louisiana and British and Spanish West Florida who have descendants throughout the Gulf Coast.One goal is to develop standardized surname spellings to allow for easier matching and merging in Geni.Includes people mentioned in Winston De Ville's "Gulf Coast Colonials," Stanley Clisby Arthur's "Old Families of Louisiana," Grace King's "Creole Fa...
Portuguese Colonial WarPortuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The Portuguese regime was overthrown ...
As the first Europeans landed and began their westward push, women were placed on the edge of hardship and danger. They took care of their families, and defended them. Limited in their legal rights and accepted customs of society at the time, women mostly honored their husbands demands and spent their time cooking meals, tending to children, watering the horses and taking care of the household ...
The British Raj refers to the British rule of the Indian subcontinent, present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Myanmar, during which period these lands were under the colonial control of Britain as part of the British Empire. Although Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) is peripheral to the Indian subcontinent, it is not counted part of the Raj, as it was ruled as a Crown Colony from London rather tha...
Geni naming conventions - England See the projects Geni naming conventions and Geni naming conventions - data entry for general guidance. Use ordinary case. Name Preference Settings can be used to change how names are displayed to your personal preference. Name as close to original name as possible, language, geography and time period to be taken into consideration. Patronymics in the...
250 Years of Colonists of New Castile aka the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1532 to 1781 Listing who can be proven to have arrived or to have been born in what is now Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, or Uruguay between 1500 and 1781.After the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532–37), the first Audiencia was constituted. In 1542, the Spanish created the Viceroyalty of New Castile, that s...
Obituary - Colonial news from England published in Australia - A sub project of Obituary Portal The Colonies "held true" to the traditions that they left behind, and sometimes even more so. An excellent example is the scathing Obituary for Harriett Wilson (Du Bochet). The people in the colonies loved to hear in great detail what was happening in London, the reports and their "take" on things is...
According to Leo van de Pas - Genealogics.Org== ==Pilot Project for a Geni Special Collection== ===the issue===There is a quality criticism of online family trees in general and of Geni in particular. We can say, after five years of the curating program and the use of Master Profiles, that the quality (accuracy, coherence, sourcing) of Geni is vastly improved and compares favorably with Ancestr...
This is a sub-project of the Child Emigration - Britain to Canada.This one is for the British and Colonial Emigration Fund children.On the whole the profiles linked to this project do not have any information about the parents, what they did in Canada or exact dates of birth. What they do have is a source document showing their immigration to Canada. Because of the numbers involved the names ar...
Détails particuliers de cette traversée ~ Details of this Voyage =Nature des Passagers : 81 filles du Roi dont une partie de Dieppe et le reste de la Rochelle.Départ de Dieppe 1668, Escale à La Rochelle, Arrivée à Québec le 03 juillet 1668=Liste des passagers ~ Passenger List ===Filles du Roy==* AUBÉ Françoise, Fille de Pierre et Françoise PERIE de la paroisse St Sulpice, 6ème arrondissement de...