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Purpose of project Please use this project as a place to connect with others tracing their Finnish ancestry, share resources you find, offer helpful tips, ask questions about your search, share your brick walls, etc. Please feel free to add any Finnish Americans you'd like to the project!
In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...
Croatian Settlers in South Africa Summary The 2013 census of South Africa indicated that the total population was nearly 53 million. It is estimated that the total of Croatian immigrants and their descendants living today in South Africa to be about 7000-8000 , however this figure is not accepted by all researchers, as some believe the true figure to be much less. Timeline of Croatian imm...
The idea of this project is to include "all" refugees from the Holocaust who managed to emigrate from Europe to safe countries, and to connect these immigrants to their families in Europe. Holocaust & Reich Refugees & Emigrés 1933-1945 List of Project Profiles Nazi Regime GenocideTimeline , Interactive Timeline The German Nazi persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish busi...
A Imigração Açoriana no Brasil foi estimulada pelo interesse de Portugal em povoar o território do Brasil colônia, alternativa empregada para impedir a exploração das novas terras portuguesas por outras nacionalidades. A vinda de imigrantes açorianos stá muito ligada à imigração de portugueses no Brasil. Após a posse das terras no Novo Mundo que pertenciam a Portugal, este não demonstrou inte...
Emigration from Norway to the United States of America. This project is about emigrants from Norway to USA. Index Links Norwegian-American Settlements in The US From which county in Norway was the emigrants born? Østfold Akershus Oslo Hedmark Oppland Buskerud Vestfold Telemark Aust Agder Vest Agder Rogaland Hordaland Sogn og Fjordane Møre og Romsdal S...
Swiss Americans are Americans of Swiss descent, including those whose ancestors spoke Swiss German, Swiss French, Swiss Italian, and Romansh. Today, there are approximately 1 million Americans who identify as Swiss American. Purpose of project Please use this project as a place to connect with others tracing their Swiss ancestry, share resources you find, offer helpful tips, ask questions a...
This project is aimed at all Croats who live in Germany today or immigrated to Germany, also in history. working in progress Hr | De | Es Kroaten in Deutschland / Hrvati u Njemačkoj , on Fb Registar Hrvata izvan Hrvatske, Hr , En , De , Es - About Registry: The Central State Office for Croats Abroad has launched a pilot project for the creation of a Registry of Croats Abroad through w...
From 1797 to 1828 they are mentioned in Split from the nearest surrounding the following surname: Sources: Split's Immigrants by the Beginning of 19th Century and Their Surnames, from Croatia , article online on croatioan (pdf) , Nevenka Bezić-Božanić: Čakavska rič : Polugodišnjak za proučavanje čakavske riječi, Vol.XVI No.1 July 1988. Split - city of immigrants , web article VRANJI...
This is the master project for all European Colonial Regions throughout the Americas; North, Central, South and the Caribbean. North America Viceroyalty of New Spain New England New France New Netherland - Dutch-United States New Spain New Sweden Alaska - Russian colonization of the Americas
Objective This project is very focused . It only considers people and profiles who arrived in New Sweden between 1638 and 1655. For many Americans, New Sweden is the gateway to their European ancestors. In turn, for many Europeans, there are lots of 'lost relatives' who simply disappeared from the European records because they emigrated to New Sweden and the 'new world'. The proje...
Scots Abroad The purpose of this project is to note the GENi profiles of Scots abroad. Profiles of Scottish born people who either emigrated to various parts of the world and died there, or who died abroad in other circumstances -conflicts, exploration etc. - can be listed below. See also: Welsh Abroad English Abroad People of note can be listed in the listing below with notes; ot...
Imigração Polonesa Os imigrantes poloneses no Brasil não formam um número expressivo como os italianos e portugueses. Porém, um grande número de imigrantes estabeleceu-se no país entre 1841 e 1971. Calcula-se que em um século [1869-1970] entraram 130.292 imigrantes poloneses no Brasil, dos quais 50% estão radicados ou deixaram descendentes no Paraná, 38% no Rio Grande do Sul, 5% em Santa Cata...
People that have a Genealogy link to Sally Pamela Dobson Atkinson Smith Hawkins
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 Ancestry & F...
Migration Portal This portal will function as an umbrella project for all projects on Geni related to migration Projects that can be included: Related to emigration Related to immigration Emigration schemes or organised emigration. Related to ports of arrival Related to ports of departure What is migration? Migration is the movement of people from one place in the world to a...
A potential companion to or subset of the more recent this project, "The Swiss Mennonite (Anabaptist) Emigrant Ancestors - Pioneers and First Families" could be seen as a collaborative effort between any and all interested parties (and/or descendants) to collect, confirm, and accurately complete the profiles and family trees of the Pioneers and First Families of our Swiss Mennonite (Anabaptist)...
Imigração neerlandesa no Brasil foi o movimento migratório ocorrido nos séculos XIX e XX de neerlandeses para várias regiões do Brasil. Apesar da imigração neerlandesa ter sido menos expressiva do que a de outros grupos de imigrantes, os imigrantes neerlandeses formaram cooperativas e empresas agrícolas em todas as regiões onde se estabeleceram colaborando assim com o desenvolvimento da economi...
Work in Progress < BACK Africanos escravizados Nigerianos Sabino Felippe da Costa (Oyo-Oba, Lagos, Nigéria, ? — Brasil, ?), que teve 5 filhos com uma outra escrava rebatizada Maria do Bonfim . Angolanos Eusébio de Queirós (São Paulo de Luanda, Angola, 1812 — Rio de Janeiro, 7 de maio de 1868) foi um magistrado e político brasileiro. Foi ministro da Justiça (1848-1852) e, neste...
Miguel Francisco Ignacio Michael Francis Enos) of Azores, Portugal married Florinda Joaquim (Flora Jackson) of W.Isles Portugal
Introduction Louisiana was settled by diverse groups of immigrants. One such group was those people that settled in Louisiana originating from the Slavic World. These Slavic immigrants were mainly from the current day countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia; known as the South Slavs. The largest influx of Slavic people into Louisi...
Names in the 1693 census of Swedes on the Delaware From the letter by Charles Springer of New Castle County to Johan Thelin, postmaster of Gothenburg, Sweden requesting and appeal to the king for Swedish ministers, bibles and books. Entitled "An exact list and roll of all the men, women and children that are found and are still alive in New Sweden in Pennsylvania on the Delaware River." Trans...
By percentage of population, Nebraska is one of the most Czech/Bohemian/Moravian States in the U.S. Several counties were founded by Czech settlers; there's even a Prague on the map. I've been working on these families and thought that it would be nice to connect with others. To this project, I'm adding 1) Bohemian immigrants to Nebraska and 2) notable Nebraskans with Bohemian ancestry. I h...
Doseljenici u Hrvatsku / Immigrations to Croatia, Emigrants - Immigrants to Croatia This is a project about and for immigrants in Croatia. Please update the list below and add the country and people from which countries have moved to Croatia. Also existing Geni projects for immigrants in Croatia connect with this project. Add profiles from your tree and update the list below from wh...
Bahamian Americans are Americans of Bahamian ancestry. There are an estimated 68,000 people of Bahamian ancestry living in the United States as of 2015. Bahamian Americans have been growing at a rate of 58% every decade since 1990. Bahamians began visiting the Florida Keys in the 18th century to salvage wrecked ships, fish, catch turtles, and log tropical hardwood trees. A Bahamian settlement...
Complete listing of Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666 (from book published 1912 by George Cabell Greer, now copyright-free) Over 17,000 names here: Please add Geni profiles you manage to this project that appear on the list. Citation: Greer, George Cabell. Early Virginia immigrants, 1623-1666. Originally published: Richmond, Va., 1912. Compiled from Land Office records; gives name, d...
I am looking for members of the Brunclik family. My great grandparents emigrated to the US in 1886 from Prague. They appeared to have lived for a short while in PA before settling in WI, specifically the Haugen and Barron areas. I'd love to trace back further.
Castle Garden arrivals 1850-1890 This project is a sub-project of the main Castle Garden Arrivals project About Castle Garden From August 1, 1855 through April 18, 1890, immigrants arriving in the state of New York came through Castle Garden. America's first official immigrant examining and processing center, Castle Garden welcomed approximately 8 million immigrants - most from Germany, I...