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Please add Geni profiles to the ship projects found in the "related" projects on the right and also listed below. The Great Puritan Migration From The Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40 New England Historical Society When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of the numbers of people who arrived, but beca...
=Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry (2004) - Colonial American immigrants= ===objective===* to ensure "gateway" profiles to royal ancestors are as well sourced as we can do=== method===* use Douglas Richardson's book Plantagenet Ancestry as a cited source for the lines covered. Mr. Richardson has a list of 205 colonial immigrants with Plantagenet ancestry assembled in the report, colonial immigr...
If you know of a profile representing someone hanged in Colonial America , please add to this project. Additional resource links welcome for the "overview." From Wikipedia John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England. Billington was convicted of murder in September of 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.[6]During the Salem witch trials, most of the m...
Please add profiles (actions > add profiles) to the project: a list of early settlers is given below. Collaborators, feel free to add resources: images, documents, and more collaborators. Documents & images stored in the project can be tagged to profiles ...From A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the T...
Milford lies in New Haven County on Long Island sound and is separated from the township of Stratford on the west by the Housatonic river, and about 10 miles S.W. of New Haven. The town, one of the original six plantations of New Haven Colony, was established in 1639, two years after the Pequot War, by Reverend Peter Prudden (lot 40). First named Wepowage, the Indian name for the river that flo...
"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 is an umbrella project for the people associated with one of the first industries: iron . Iron working. This is an international project for any historical period. Collaborators, please feel free to edit this front page; add documents, profiles and images; and develop the themes discovered by starting related (perhaps more detailed) projects. For example:* Braintree Iron Works (1643) * Sco...
Please add profiles representing the "founding families" of Woodstock. Profiles must be set to "public.". The resources collected on the media gallery are available for all - and please do contribute more. A Brief History of the Town of Woodstock, CT From The Town of Woodstock : In 1636, Thomas Hooker and his party may have passed by way of the Connecticut Path, going to settle what is now H...
Founders of the town of East Hampton Please add profiles to project of the people in bold below, and also, hyperlink them. Beginning in 1648 as a tiny English settlement, caught in turmoil during the American Revolution, and then languishing in splendid, self-sufficient isolation for more than a century, the Town of East Hampton became in the development-mad 20th century an international res...
This will be an umbrella project to pinpoint the families who were early settlers of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Some of these already have their own projects, e.g., Captain John Johnson and Edward Riggs.>> It was said that the best people settled in Roxbury. >> They were people of substance, many of them farmers, none being 'of the poorer sort.' They struck root in the soil immediately and were en...
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...
In The Vinton memorial, comprising a genealogy of the descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Appendix G - The Braintree Iron Works - John Adams Vinton wrote:It has been a question, whether the first Iron Works in America were erected at Lynn or at Braintree. It is certain that both of these places had Iron Works In-fore they were established elsewhere on this continent. It is also certain th...
Bring your ancestor profiles on over! Must be set to "public." 6 May 1635 Quascacunquen is allowed by the Court to be a plantation ... and shall hereafter be called NEWBURY Background from , quoting from The League of Women Voters (Dead link July 2023) MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY In 1633, Thomas Parker and James Noyes, both nonconformist ministers, with a like-minded group of British subje...
Overview and Scope of Project=The goal of this project is to discover our ancestors involved in the notorious Salem Witch Trials , validate their family trees and our own connections to them, and create nigh-quality, genealogically-valid mini biographies for their Profiles.=About the Salem Witch Trials= The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county...
Table of contents====* Chapter 1 : Brief History * Chapter 2 : Immigrant Ships * Chapter 3 : Territorial Development * Chapter 4 : Origins * Chapter 5 : Immigrants .* Chapter 6 : Notable Citizens * Chapter 7 : Famous Descendants * Chapter 8 : Living Descendants * Chapter 9 : Lost Traces
Colonial officials other than Governors. Includes Deputy Governors, Assembly and Council members, etc. An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private...
Great Migration: Passengers of the John of London, 1638 From John of London sailed from Hull, England to Boston, MA in the summer of 1638 with Master George Lamberton. The passage was known for its passenger, Ezekiel Rogers who settled in Rowley, as well as carrying the first printing press to the colonies. Note: "John of London of one of 8 to 12 ships organized by Ezekiel Rogers to bring fa...
Geni naming conventions - enslaved Americans 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. Place the last name a person was born with in the Birth Surname field and the last name they died with in the Surname fie...
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...
Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often began to marry outside their immediate French communities fairly rapidly, which led to their assimilation. Their descendants in many families continued to use French first names and surnames for their c...
Cooper - n. - a person whose work is making or repairing barrels and casks (Webster's New World Dictionary) From Barrel Making :We often think in terms of wine or whiskey when we think of the things likely to be contained in a barrel. But, all sorts of foods were stored in barrels. Sauerkraut was fermented and stored in them. Fish, meats and some vegetables were dried and salted then stored and...
This project identifies Geni Profiles for the New Haven Crypt. The Crypt contains the identified remains of about 137 people, and the likely remains of over 1,000 that are unidentified known crypt inhabitants, list uploaded as a Project document or on this link: New Haven Crypt Names Please join us as a collaborator, add your ancestor's profile, and if possible, link the profile in the "overvie...
Hi! The United States and Colonial Tree Builders Project is intended to attempt a way to systematically keep track of the persons listed in the following Profiles that currently do not have profiles on Geni. A constant work in progress I imagine. Curators often will curate a profile with mentions of other individuals that do not have a known profile in Geni. This project profiles are not limit...
I've been running across ancestors who were publicly "punished" in Colonial America, have you? Here's a project to remember what they endured.* from Crimes and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America the court structure was quite different from Great Britain. The colonial system was a hierarchy of overlapping courts and common law was the law of the land. The common law was greatly i...
The purpose of this project is to document the Jewish families who lived in North America in the Colonial period (before 1789). Scope of Project The first Jew to set foot on American soil was Solomon Franco , a merchant who arrived in Boston in 1649; subsequently he was given a stipend from the Puritans there, on condition he leave on the next passage back to Holland. In September of 1654, s...