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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lee County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county was named for Lighthorse Harry Lee, officer in the Revolutionary War, or Richard Henry Lee, member of the Continental Congress. It was organized on February 27, 1839.President Ronald Reagan lived in Dixon as a boy and attended Dixon High School. Adjacent Counties * DeKalb County * Og...
This is a sub project of Maryland counties, cities and towns Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Maryland. Official Website Montgomery County came into existence on October 1, 1776. In 1777, the leaders of the new county chose as their county seat an area adjacent to Hungerford's Tavern near the center of the county, which became Rockville in 180...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Brule County, South Dakota. Brule County was created on January 14, 1875, of territory partitioned from Charles Mix County. Its governing structure was also created at that time. However, in May 1875, Brule County was withdrawn from settlement, by order of US President Grant. This order was later annulled, and the organization of Bru...
The Seven Sisters , also sometimes called the "Female Ivy League," are a group of seven women's colleges that have educated some of the brightest minds in American history. Today, five remain as women's colleges, while one (Vassar) has become co-educational and one (Radcliffe) has merged with its "brother" institution.Known for their exceptionally strong alumnae networks, both as individual col...
Wikipedia The Order of the Coif (/ˈkɔɪf/) is an American collegiate honor society for law school graduates. The Order was founded in 1902 at the University of Illinois College of Law. The name is a reference to the ancient English order of advocates, the serjeants-at-law, whose courtroom attire included a coif—a white lawn or silk skullcap, which came to be represented by a round piece of whi...
Phi Kappa Tau (ΦΚΤ), commonly known as Phi Tau, is a collegiate fraternity located in the United States. The fraternity was founded in 1906. As of February 2019, the fraternity has 161 Chartered Chapters, 83 active chapters, 9 colonies and around 4,500 collegiate members. SeriousFun Children's Network, founded by Beta Chapter alumnus Paul Newman, is Phi Kappa Tau's National Philanthropy. Accord...
Este é um subprojeto relacionado ao Projeto Maior Imigrantes Alemães ao Brasil Este subprojeto visa organizar dados genealógicos dos imigrantes alemão que vieram ao Brasil e foram instalados na Colônia de Santa Cruz do Sul, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Os imigrantes já identificados estão na lista de perfis deste subprojeto: Em 1849 foi fundada a colônia de Santa Cruz do Sul no vale do Ri...
This is a subproject related to the Larger German Immigrants to Brazil Project This subproject aims to organize genealogical data of German immigrants who came to Brazil and settled in the Santo Ângelo Colony, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The immigrants already identified are on the profile list of this subproject:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Le Sueur County, Minnesota. Official Website This county was created on March 5. 1853 of that year. It was named for French explorer Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, who visited the area in 1700. Adjacent Counties Blue Earth County Nicollet County Waseca County Rice County Sibley County Scott County
Czech Americans (Czech: Čechoameričané ), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States who are of Czech birth or descent. Czechs originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. These lands have been governed by a variety of states, i...
Tervetuloa majakanvartijoiden ammattiprojektiin! Projektin tarkoituksena on koota majakanvartijoiden ja loistonhoitajien ammattiaharjoittaneiden henkilöiden profiilit yhdeksi kokoelmaksi, niin sukututkimuksen kuin muunkin mikrohistoriatyön tueksi lakia ja hyviä tapoja noudattaen. Projektin toimintaperiaatteista Jos sinulla on suvussa majakanvartijoita tai hallinnoit majakanvartijoiden Geni-pr...
Under konstruktion varande projekt Med projektet som inletts i juli 2024 är målet att skapa länken mellan klockgjutare och klockringare till automatiseringen av klockorna. Vilka var de framsynta statsmän, präster, finansiärer, hantverkare, ämbetsmän och förtroendevalda som byggt upp ett kulturarv som tjänat i flera århundraden och betjänar än idag; anger tiden, ringer in tid glädje och kungö...
MTree: Finland: Riitta Tuomaantytär Anna Simonst. Huttunen (o.s. Tomberg) Kaisa Tyllinen
Saunders Surname Meaning: English (Surrey and Kent): variant of Sander with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022 Sander, Sanders Surname Meaning: English (Cumberland) Dutch German and Swedish: from the personal name Sander a shortened form of Alexander . Compare Saunders . German: topographic name for someone who lived on sa...
The Hanseatic Cross (German: Hanseatenkreuz) was a military decoration of the three Hanseatic city-states of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were members of the German Empire during World War I. Each republic established its own version of the cross, but the design and award criteria were similar for each.
Irish (Tipperary Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’ with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’. English (northern): variant of Myer with post-medieval excrescent -s. English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) i...
The Military Merit Cross (Militärverdienstkreuz) was established by Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on August 5, 1848. Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a grand duchy located in northern Germany, was a member of the German Confederation and later the German Empire. In several respects, Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Military Merit Cross was patterned after the Prussian Iron Cross. Both came...
Brooks Surname Meaning English: usually a variant of Brook with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s with no grammatical function is usually post-medieval but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function and the name mea...
This project open to any Aerial Aces of any War these were the best of best flyers in our history. This project is open to any country. Wikipedia A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace has varied, but is usually consider...
Biographical Dictionary of the‧Extreme‧Right — since 1890 * Philip REES ‧ x ‧ author ‧ * publishers : SIMON & SCHUSTER ‧ USA-New York ‧ English language ‧ 1990-418p. ‧ ISBN 0-13-089301-3 ‧ hardcover ‧ ==summaryThe Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 is a reference book on leading people in the various far right movements since 1890. It contains entries for what the author re...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stewart County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 23, 1830. It was named for Daniel Stewart, a Revolutionary War veteran, and fighter against American Indians. He was one of the four great-grandfathers of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. Adjacent Counties Chattahoochee County Russell County, Ala...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Georgia. Official Website This area was historically occupied by the Creek Indians until Indian Removal in the 1830s. European Americans pushed them out and developed the land for cotton, bringing in thousands of African slaves to work the land. The county is named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, me...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Henry County, Alabama. Official Website Henry County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Territorial Legislature. The area was ceded by the Creek Indian Nation in 1814 under the Treaty of Fort Jackson. From 1877 to 1950, whites lynched 13 African Americans in the county, most in the decades on either side of the tu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Early County, Georgia. Official Website History The county area was long territory of the historic Creek Indian peoples of the Southeast, particularly along the Chattahoochee River. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, European-American settlers began to encroach on this territory, pushing the Muscogee out during Indian Remo...