Add Profile to a Special Project That is not Linked to My Tree

I´m middle of same kind of situation. Wondering if I start a new tree.. or is there already project for this?

Here is the situation. I created a special project - Castro’s Colony - which consists of Alsatian, German and Swiss immigrants to Medina County Texas ca 1844. I noticed that there was intermarriage with many Germans in New Braunfels Texas. Prince Solm founded New Braunfels ca 1846, so I created a Prince Solm’s Colony as a special project. I am confident that a number of my Castro profiles are linked to that colony. My problem is that I have eome 850 Castro profiles and there appears no way to search them to find the linkages.

Thanks for the suggestion.I am unsure, however, whether I want a new family branch on my plate. Speaking of strategies, I have used a method to add a profile to a project when I do not manage that profile. Simply create an identical sibling, add that sibling to the profile, and then merge that sibling back in. Voila, you do not have to wait for unresponsive managers or bug curators.

I have found a solution. The bulk of Castro’s immigrants came from France. All of Prince Solm’s colonists. came fom Germany. I went to Ancestry and searched for all persons born in France and who died in New Braunfels. I already have found one who is in my tree. If any of his descendants married a descendant of a Prince Solm colonist, then I have my entree.

What do you mean by “adding term to project?”

One, so far.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Capt Henry Edward Heater and Erica Howton

I'm still working with the system here in Geni, but every day I learn more. In my case there were 4 ships that were brought from Europe under Oglethorpe and Reverend Boltzius to create a religous, communal colony from people expelled from the bishopric of Salzburg in Austria. These were people dedicated to pushing back against what they considered a Catholic tyranny, so 20,000 people refusing baptism were expelled from their homes to become Lutheran. 300 of these followed Rev Boltzius to Georgia and became Evangelical Lutherans. That's a long story short. After years of hostile Indians, dysentary, and an intense epidemic of malaria they became financially successful working communally making more money than coastal plantation owners dependent on slave labor. The Salzburgers did not believe in slavery, but their lifestyle was challenged and they were literally forced to buy slaves. Their solution was to adopt them into their families and baptize them into their community. Rev Boltzius and his family died from the diseases there as well as that of his assistant minister. But as a business the thrived and made up 80% of colonial Georgia and here we are today.

I'm attempting to reach out to the trees to find descendants of Salzburgers and create their own community finding the ancestors that stepped off the ships in Savannah. I'm giving their descendants a badge :)

NOTE: I'm part of your tree so don't qualify for your study, but like Salzburg, your original settlers came from a place, Alsace. I think you are working on a truly fascinating project!

Hi Amanda: Interesting project. Go on ancestry.com, search for birthplace Salzburg, death place Georgia, and birth date 1700 plus or minus ten yesrs. You will discover a large number of your immigrants. Cheers, Henry

Hello Henry: Ancestry is always soooo tempting, but soooo expensive. shoot. I could see opening research for free, but will they allow me to research trees?

Hi Amanda: Amazon used to offer a free trial period which permitted access to trees. Cheers, Henry

Hi Amanda: I just added some screen shots from ancestry to your project. I hope you find them helpful. Cheers, Henry

Hey Henry! Thank you so much! Unfortunately I used up Ancestry's good will earlier this year and was thinking of going in next year. I spent more money than I intended on tests and both myheritage and geni...I live on a budget :p

I appreciate your help! I was going to tease you about Amazon ;) that you were reading too much...but thought better of it. Sometimes I can be tactless.

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