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Colonial American tree cleanup Last updated 23 December 2023 Make Geni members aware of this specialty area, where members share their knowledge and trees. Invite collaborators, please! Project objectives: Find and merge Colonial American duplicate profiles. Ensure profiles have biographies and sources. Improve and enhance trees. Project scope: The first generation to settle i...
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...
This project is focused around the genealogy of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). If you have sourced information, please don't hesitate to contribute. Influential and Well-Known Quakers George Fox William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania Robert Barclay, The Quaker Apologist Susan B. Anthony, Civil Rights Leader Joan Baez, Singer and Political Activist John Dalto...
Please add profiles of your teaching ancestors -- anyone from famous professors to Sunday school teachers, and everyone in between. Collaborators: please update the project page, add resources, images, documents, and invite others to join. At right: A perfect example of the classic American one-room schoolhouse, as seen in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky.==Notables==Many people famous fo...
Everyone is invited to add their "hammering" 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.From Glimpses of 17th and 18th Century colonial American life There were men who earned a living at carpentry. If they lived in a port town, they...
(Any of the text is written in Norwegian).* In this project it is stories about people mostly in the US (United States of America) who immigrated from Norway. It is added stories from Norway and Norwegians abroad. * In the profiles added to this project one find the stories about the specific person. Each person has his or her own story, and this story is unique for each and personal. The story...
The founding heritage of the Chandler family is in the Anglo-Saxon culture that once dominated in Britain. The name Chandler comes from when one of the family worked as a person who makes and sells candles. More rarely, the surname Chandler may have been applied to someone who had the responsibility of lighting the candles in a large house or someone who owed rent in the form of wax or candles....
The earliest permanent settlements in Cumberland County were along the Cohansey River. Between 1680 and 1700, settlers had begun to carve out of the South Jersey wilderness a home for themselves and their families. Meaningful permanent settlement in what is now called Cumberland County dates from 1675 when John Fenwick purchased his tenth of West New Jersey from Lord John Berkeley . Fenwick es...
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 ...
From The Descendants of Founders of New Jersey :>A list of qualifying ancestors is below. The list is not exhaustive, and membership is not limited to descent from one of the names listed.>Instead, the names are presented as a starting off point for potential members who may already be able to document descent from one or more of the individuals previously certified as Founders.For more informa...
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut.Please add your ancestors to this project. Profiles must be set to public. This is an international project. Resources* How to temper steel * English Wikipedia * Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths * List of famous blacksmiths * History of blacksmithing * Blacksmi...
"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...
This was one of the many wars that made up the French and Indian Wars. See the Master Project Indian Wars The summary is taken from French and Indian War and Atlas of the North American Indian, Revised Edition, 2000. ==French and Indian War==What most historians call the French and Indian War was really the final conflict in a long series of wars among the the European colonial powers for world...
THE GREAT MIGRATION: SHIPS TO NEW ENGLAND 1633-35It an amazing story of Providence and the skill of English seamen that dozens of Atlantic ocean passages were made in little wooden ships bringing our Puritan ancestors to America almost without mishap in the 1630's; the unhappy exception being the harrowing story of the Angel Gabriel , 1635, which met a terrible storm and cast up on the coast of...
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The word "Burgess" means an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle i...
Join this project (Actions > Join Project) if you would like to become part of it Soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, King William and Queen Mary ascended to the throne of England. They offered the Huguenots the privilege of settling in Virginia. About 600 came to Virginia in 1700- 170. Many settled at a deserted Indian village called Manakintown.which is on the south side of the...
Please add the profiles of the chirurgeons, physicans, midwives, apothecaries and bonesetters who were our earliest doctors. Collaborators, feel free to update the page and add resource materials.== Please note: 40% of the physicians in the early colonies were women. Midwives at this time were considered doctors.===18th Century American Medicine===From: 18th Century England, there were three ma...
Early settlers of the town of Southold on Long Island Please add profiles listed below to the project, and also link them in the index. Feel free to add all early town residents. Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land an...
New Findings for the English Family of Thomas Osborne of New Haven, CT and East Hampton, LI-NY, NEHGR Vol 178. ( document attached ). Extensive new information uncovered in parish docs and a listing of extended family. The earliest known Osborne is this line is Thomas Osborne (1530-1611)
Please add your pioneer and notable ancestors of Hopewell to this project. Collaborators, feel free to update the page, add resources, documents, images ...==origins==Hopewell’s first inhabitants were Lenapes, an Algonquin tribe who welcomed Europeans because they needed protection from other Indians. Their Hopewell villages were Wissamonson [Woodbridge] and Minnepenasson [Stoutsburg]. New Jers...
Introduction==A gunsmith is a person who repairs, modifies, designs, or builds guns. Gunsmiths may also apply carvings, engravings and other decorative features to an otherwise finished gun.Please add your ancestors to this project. Profiles must be set to public . This is an international project. To pursue the entirety of this trade, a gunsmith must possess skills as:* a parts fabricator* a m...
In 1633 John Oldham from Watertown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony explored the Connecticut River. The following year he and some companions built temporary housing and passed the winter at Wethersfield. With the arrival of warmer weather other settlers, many also from Watertown, arrived from Massachusetts Bay. >Wethersfield has its niche in history, being " Ye Most Auncient Towne " in Connecti...
American Colonial Governors This project is designed to capture pre-statehood Governors of entities that eventually became American States and to be a portal to the individual pre-statehood projects. Colonial governors should be added to both this project and to the individual pre-statehood projects. Territorial Governors are included in a separate Geni project: Governors of the states after...
Bring your ancestors on over. Profiles must be set to public. from Southampton, England to New England 24 April 1638 Another transcription of this voyage can be seen: Passenger List for the Confidence 1638 List of passengers from Southampton for New England 24 April 1638 by the 'Confidence' of London, two hundred tons - Master Mr. John Gibson. - "by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of...
Colonial Governors of Connecticut The territory of the United States state of Connecticut was first settled by Europeans in the 1620s, when Dutch traders established trading posts on the Connecticut River. English settlers, mainly Puritans fleeing repression in England, began to arrive in the 1630s, and a number of separate colonies were established. The first was the Saybrook Colony in 1635, b...