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Notable Huguenots or people from Huguenot descent United States Arts & Entertainment=== James Agee , American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author Earl W. Bascom , American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor William Christopher, American actor Joan Crawford , American actress Davy Crockett , American folk hero Johnny Depp , American actor Philip Morin Frenea...
This project highlights the many notable figures who trace their roots to the Creole and Cajun communities of southern Louisiana.==Cajuns==Cajuns -- les Cadiens -- are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of French-speaking exiles from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes. About 500,000 Americans list themselves as Cajun, including...
This project will gather information about people who were born in Cornwall and who died in Colorado. Cornwall is one of the Celtic nations. Many Cornish people came to Colorado during the mining boom. They were called "Cousin Jack" or "Cousin Jenny".=Featured Profiles=* Susan Benson 1859–1944 Autobiographer* Levinia Champion 1837–1912 Subject of the Book No Wealth for Levinia * John Johns 1839...
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 in...
Frisian Americans are people originally from or living in the United States, with full or partial Frisian ancestry.Frisians are a Germanic ethnocultural group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany. Frisians have historically included both Christian and Jews. They are closely connected to the Dutch, Northern Germans, and the English, and speak Frisian languages divided by ge...
This is a list of notable Jamaican Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.===(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project.)Are you related? Intrigued by a genealogy? Please contribute by building out their family trees on Geni. Make sure the profile is "public" but please protect the p...
Early Mormonism had a range of doctrines related to race in regard to black people of African descent. References to black people, their social condition during the 19th century, and their spiritual place in Western Christianity as well as Mormon scriptures were complicated.From the beginning, black people have been members of Mormon congregations, though there were varying degrees and forms of...
The backbone of this project is from an online article, Lebanese americans, by Paula Hajar and J. Sydney Jones. (See links below).OverviewThe earliest immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean were generally lumped together under the common rubric of Syrian-Lebanese, and it is consequently difficult to separate the number of ethnic Lebanese immigrants from ethnic Syrian immigrants. Neither of t...