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...
Abolitionism is the doctrine that slavery must be ended. It is supported by activities that might achieve this goal. It is largely of historic interest because nearly all nations have abolished slavery within their borders. This project recognizes abolitionists — supporters of this doctrine — and the families of abolitionists.In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Starbuck , Coffin , Gardner and related families, from earlier origins to near modern times Overview The Starbuck and Coffin families were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to t...
Native American/American Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools This project is to acknowledge the traumatic and, at times, triumphant experiences of those Native American children who were forced, coerced and placed in Native American Boarding Schools. These are the schools and the places, a long way from home, which changed the fabric of the Native American in the United States and Canad...
This Project is to study and document Quaker women. Feel free to join, add to the list (below) - and bring your ancestresses profiles with you. ==Quaker Views on Women==For many outside observers during the first hundred years of Quakerism, the most surprising aspect of Quakerism was the fact that "ministry" – the prerogative to speak during a Quaker meeting – was open to women from the very be...
Update 6/13/2016(CLM): This is a Genealogy Project for the Quaker Ancestor Roster. This Project is for those with Quakers in their family. This is not a place to put Ads for shows, products. ==Links==# current Quaker meetings in Pennsylvania region # wiki Quakers in North America ==Held in the Light==# The Peaceable Kingdom # Quaker archives at Leeds includes so-called "persistent links"# Immig...
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
This project is dedicated to the preservation to the history of the Pounds family, which has fathered a number of extensive branches across the United States. The surname Pound was first found in Hampshire where they were granted lands by Wiliam the Conqueror for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. They held a family seat as Lords of the manor of Drayton in that shire. The...
Quakers of New Jersey: "Kent" Passengers (1677) Scope of Project To build single, validated and documented Master Profiles for passengers of The Kent , which sailed from London, England to Chygoes Island, now Burlington, New Jersey in Dec. 1677. Many of the passengers were Quakers (members of the Society of Friends). Related Projects Overview from: Fall, 1677— The ship Kent arrives ...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented for passengers of "The Shield," which sailed from Stockton, England to Burlington, New Jersey in Dec. 1677. Many of the passengers were Quakers (members of the Society of Friends). Overview from: The favorable accounts written home by the first settlers in West Jersey stimulated immigration and soon there was an accession to the p...
This Project is to find our Quaker Ancestors on Barbados. Feel free to join and bring your ancestor profile along. ==Quakers on Barbados==* 1655 Quakers Mary Fisher and Ann Austin traveled to Barbados and are said to have been the first Quakers in America. >"The island of Barbados was during the 17th century the great port of entry to the colonies in the western world. In the last half of the c...
In 1645, Flushing , then a town called Vlissengen , was granted a charter by the Dutch West India Company and became a part of New Netherlands . It was settled largely by English families, similar to English settlements at Gravesend, Hempstead, and Jamaica, Long Island. A respected Flushing colonist, Henry Townsend , held a Quaker meeting in his home and was fined and banished. Flushing citize...
Complete listing of Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666 (from book published 1912 by George Cabell Greer, now copyright-free)Over 17,000 names here: 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, date of entry, and ...
Wikipedia Wilmington Friends School is a private Pre-kindergarten-12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington. It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends. Of the school, Delaware historian Benjamin Ferris wrote in the 19th century, ...
Include profiles from any Wildman Yorkshire/Lancashire tree even if they do not seem to be related as yet. These are individuals in the Lancashire Yorkshire border region in the 16th and 17th centuries Pictured is a chapel that stood on the site of its replacement, the Church of the Good Shepherd of Tatham Fells. The new church has more elaborate architectural features. Note that in the parish...
Yorkshire, England: Church of England Parish Records Giggleswick Vol 1, 1558-1669 Volume One Giggleswick Parish Registers ~• found at: online site ~• Fun Quote : " I am researching the Wildman family that orginiates in the North West Region of Yorkshire, in England, particularly in towns of Clapham, Ingleton, Long Preston, Giggleswick, Wigglesworth, Settle,etc... Earliest Wildman found: A Rober...
Since April 1688* The Proprietors of the Gloucester Tenth* have met annually on this spot* to elect members to represent them* in the Council of * the General Proprietors of * the Western Division of New JerseyThe goal of this project is to showcase the original proprietors of West Jersey.==background==From Wikipedia "The Dutch defeated New Sweden in 1655. Settlement of the West Jersey area by ...
Project based on Lamb Family geneology by Francis L. Lamb of Chestertown, MD in the early 1990's. It begins with ? Lambe marries ? Pearce , parents of Richard Lambe , Francis Lambe , Henry Lambe and Pearce Lamb (who comes to America in 1669).===PropertyThe family tract, Lamb's Meadow, is in historic trust. Details here:
Quakers: Religious Society of FriendsThis project is focused around the genealogy of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).This project will trace the families who belonged, be it for a long time or transitioning to Methodist, in Lancashire. During this time marriages were not as confined to the Parishes of birth, but often confined to the Quaker community. For this reason, proj...