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This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Tolland County, Connecticut. Tolland County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, its population was 149,788. It is incorporated into 13 towns and was originally formed on 13 October 1785 from portions of eastern Hartford County and western Windham County. The county is included ...
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Hartford County, Connecticut. Wikipedia Hartford County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. According to the 2020 census, the population was 899,498,[1] making it the second-most populous county in Connecticut. Hartford County contains the city of Hartford, the state capital of Connecticut...
Wikipedia Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Incorporated as the "Collegiate School," the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train ...
Consecrated in 1895, Calvary Cemetery was established as a Roman Catholic burial site. Located on 80 acres, Calvary Cemetery’s rich history, beautiful rolling hills, and panoramic view of the city of Waterbury have made it the premier burial grounds for Catholics and their families for over 100 years. With over 100,000 Catholics interred, Calvary today offers entombment in one of our two commu...
The University of Connecticut , popularly known as UConn , is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut. It was founded in 1881. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hartford and 90 minutes from Boston. It is a flagship university that is ranked as the best public national university in New England and is tied for 23...
The following is from this Wikipedia article :Stratford was founded in 1639 as "the plantation at Pequonnocke",[2] by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley, and either 16 families—according to legend—or approximately 35 families—suggested by later research—who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom. In 1640 the community was known as Cuphea...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Fairfield County was the home of many Native American tribes prior to the Europeans' arrival. People of the Schaghticoke tribe lived in the area of present-day New Fairfield and Sherman. From east to west the Wappinger sachemships included the Paugussetts, Tankiteke, and the Siwanoy. There were also Paqui...
This subportal is part of the State of Connecticut Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities & Communities Branford - Founders & Descendants Bristol East Haddam - 1600-1800 Enfield
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in New London County, Connecticut. Wikipedia Adjacent counties Windham County (north) Kent County, Rhode Island (northeast) Washington County, Rhode Island (east) Middlesex County (west) Tolland County (northwest) Hartford County (northwest) Suffolk County, New York (south) Communities Map of New London County, Connecticut showing c...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in New Haven County, Connecticut. Wikipedia Following the process of unification of New Haven Colony with Connecticut Colony in 1664–65, cohesion could be improved. New Haven County was constituted by an act of the Connecticut General Court on May 10, 1666, along with Hartford County, Fairfield County, and New London County. The act estab...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Middlesex County, Connecticut. Middlesex County was formed from parts of Hartford and New London counties. Adjacent counties Hartford County (north) New London County (east) New Haven County (west) Suffolk County, New York (south) Cities, Towns and Communities: Centerbrook - Chester - Clinton - Cobalt - Cromwell - Deep River - ...
This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in Litchfield County, Connecticut.= Wikipedia =
Wesleyan University Wikipedia Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, founded in 1831. Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences, also provides graduate research in many academic disciplines, and grants PhD degrees primarily in the sciences and mathematics. Wesleyan...
New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is the third largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport and Stamford, the largest city in the South Central Connecticut...
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale. The society is known informally as "Bones," and members are known as "Bonesmen." Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale...
Polytechnic Institute=Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut. It was founded in 1824 by Stephen van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes of life" and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world. Built...
This Geni project is meant as an unofficial companion piece to the excellent website Today in Connecticut History , which is a project of the Office of the State Historian of Connecticut and CT Humanities . Each day, the Today in Connecticut History website features a person and/or event important in state history. This Geni project compiles genealogical profiles relevant to those dates. Cal...
The Hartford Whalers were an American professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1997. Originally based in Boston, Massachusetts, the team joined the WHA in the League's inaugural 1972 season, and was known as the New Englan...
The Connecticut General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is a bicameral body composed of the 151-member House of Representatives and the 36-member Senate. It meets in the state capital, Hartford. There are no term limits for either chamber. During even-numbered years, the General Assembly is in session from February to May. In odd-numbered years, when the ...
The Litchfield Law School of Litchfield, Connecticut, was the first independent law school established in America for reading law. Founded and led by lawyer Tapping Reeve, the proprietary school was unaffiliated with any college or university. (While Litchfield was independent, a long-term debate resulted in the 1966 recognition of William & Mary Law School, opened five years after Litchfield, ...
New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the outlet of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut . The city is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The city had a population of 27,367 at the 2020 census.[4] The Norwich–New London metropolitan area includes 21 towns and 274,055 people.. Map showing the ...
Killingworth is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 6,174 at the 2020 United States Census.[2] History Killingworth was established from the area called Hammonasset, taken from the local Native American tribe of the same name. The area originally incorporated the area of the present ...
This project is used to relate all units from Connecticut who served in the Union Army.
Wikipedia Kent School Kent School is a highly selective private, co-educational college preparatory school in Kent, Connecticut, United States. The Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill, Order of the Holy Cross, established the school in 1906 and it retains its affiliation with the Episcopal Church of the United States. Students at Kent come from more than 40 foreign countries and nearly as many ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Windham County, Connecticut. The area that is now Windham County became of interest to the English around 1635, but went unsettled for over fifty years due to its lack of access to the shore. John Winthrop the Younger took a strong interest to this land, purchased land from the Narragansetts, and was given permission by the court of Co...