Genealogy Projects on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Lokalitet Helsingborg /Locality Helsingborg

    HistoryHelsingborg is one of the oldiest cities in Sweden. Its history extends to the Viking era. There has been permanent settlement since 1085. Helsingborgs geographical position at the narrowest part of Öresund made it very important for Denmark. From 1429 Eric of Pomerania introduced the Öresundstolden (the Sound Dues), a levy on all trading vessels passing through the sound between Helsing...

  • Haraker socken, Västmanland

    Harakers socken i Västmanland ingick i Norrbo härad, uppgick 1967 i Västerås stad och området ingår sedan 1971 i Västerås kommun och motsvarar från 2016 Harakers distrikt, som ingår i Skultuna kommundel. Socknens areal är 79,10 kvadratkilometer, varav 77,40 land. År 2000 fanns här 593 invånare. Svanå samt kyrkbyn Haraker med sockenkyrkan Harakers kyrka ligger i socknen. Administrativ histori...

  • Municipality of Vadstena, Ostrogothia, Sweden

    Municipality of Vadstena, Östergötland, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Vadstena , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. ...

  • Jewish Families from Lviv (Lemberg, Lvov), Ukraine

    This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Lemberg/Lwow/Lviv now in the Ukraine, formerly Galicia. Lemberg Ghetto Lemberg on JewishGen Lemberg in Jewish Encyclopedia LEMBERG (Polish, Lwow): Table of Contents Karaites. Taxes and Business Restrictions. Protection of the Magistracy. Institutions. Capital of Galicia, Austria; 180 miles east of Cracow and 6...

  • Jewish Families from Leżajsk, Poland

    This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Leżajsk, Poland. Gesher Galicia - Leżajsk JewishGen Memory Book for Leżajsk Leżajsk, ליזשענסק, Lizhensk 50.16 North, 22.26 East Full name The Free Royal Town of Leżajsk, Polish: Wolne Królewskie Miasto Leżajsk, Yiddish: ליזשענסק-Lizhensk is a town in southeastern Poland with 14,127 inhabitants (02.06.2009). It ha...

  • 1941-1944 Shoah (the Holocaust) in Belarus

    Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population, including most of its intellectual elite and 90% of the country’s Jewish population. Altogether, between 2,230,000 to 3.0 million people were killed in Belarus during the three years of German occupation.The Nazis imposed a brutal regime, deporting to Germany some 380,000 young people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civili...

  • Colonial Americas Portal

    This is the master project for all European Colonial Regions throughout the Americas; North, Central, South and the Caribbean. No profiles, please. North America Viceroyalty of New Spain New England Jamestown, Virginia - 1624 Census Jamestown, Virginia 1607-1699 New France New Netherland - Dutch-United States New Spain

  • Waldensians

    Waldensians (also known variously as Waldenses (/wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl-/), Vallenses, Valdesi or Vaudois) are a Christian movement and religious cultural group which appeared first in Lyon and spread to the Cottian Alps in the late 1170s. Today, the Waldensian movement is centered on Piedmont in northern Italy, while small communities are also found in southern Italy, Argentina, Germany, the United...

  • Jewish families from Načeradec (Natscheradetz), Bohemia, Czech Republic

    This project seeks to document all of the Jewish families from the village of Načeradec (Natscheradetz) in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Jewish History The Jewish community in Načeradec was founded in 1850, and in 1919 it was merged with the community in Vlašim. A Jewish religious school was founded in 1855 and closed down in 1890. Important teachers wer...

  • Slutsky - Jewish Family of Belarus

    While the Slutsky families all initially came from Slutsk (Belarus), it appears there were three or four independent Slutsky families in Eastern Europe that have descendants throughout the world. This project is to help Slutsky descendants sort out which branch they are from and meet fellow Slutsky researchers.

  • Gorelick - Jewish Family of Belarus

    This is a place for all the descendants of the Belarusian Jews.>> In loving memory to my wonderful grandmother, Sara Haya ("Haisore" as her mom used to call her in Yiddish) Potapovskaya nee Gorelik. ===Sara Haya Gorelick's Family * Sara Haya was born in Zhlobin to the large Gorelik family. * She spent the years of the world war two in Orenburg along with her many family members.* In Orenburg sh...

  • Jewish Families of the Borisov District, Belarus

    This is an umbrella project, listing all of the sub-projects on Jews from towns in the Borisov uezd (county) of the Minsk District of Belarus. Our goal is to set up a project page for each of the communities, and include links to families from those communities on the particular project page. For a good example of what can be done, see [ TBD ].>* Shtetls of Belarus - Borisov JewishGen>* Borisov...

  • Jewish Families from Bukowsko, Poland

    This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bukowsko, Poland, also known as Bikavsk, Bakavsk, Bikovsk, Bukovska. In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1361. During 966 - 1018, 1340 - 1772 (Ruthenian Voivodeship) and during 1918 - 1939 Bukowsko was part of Poland. While during 1772 - 1918 it belonged to Austrian empire, later Austrian-Hunga...

  • Hällefors kommun, Västmanland

    Hällefors kommun ligger i nordvästra delen av Örebro län i Västmanland. Centralort är Hällefors och näst största ort är Grythyttan. Kommunen gränsar i söder mot Karlskoga kommun, i sydost mot Nora kommun, i öster mot Ljusnarsbergs kommun och Lindesbergs kommun, i väster mot Filipstads kommun (Värmlands län) och i norr mot Ludvika kommun (Dalarnas län). Administrativ historik Kommunens område...

  • Cousin Marriages

    A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited.[1] Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins.[2] Cousin mar...

  • Locality Tihtozero, White Sea Karelia, Russia

    Tihtozero (White Sea Karelia, Russia) locality project =Genealogy project for Tihtozero and the neighbouring areas.In addition to this locality project, please register also to the larger entity, Finland and Karelia Project , that builds family tree in the whole Finland and Karelia. Please register also to the relevant village projects (list below). Joining projects: in the project page, click ...

  • Jewish Families from Velké Meziříčí (Gross Meseritsch), Moravia, Czech Republic

    This project seeks to list representatives of all of the Jewish families from the Moravian town of Velké Meziříčí (Gross Meseritsch) in the Czech Republic.# Wolf Altenstein # Ferdinand Bäck # Herschl Blum (1794-)# Jonas Bratmann # Löbl Brügl # Jakob Buchsbaum # Samuel Eisenmann # Josef Feimann

  • Palčiauskai/Palčevskiai/Palczewski of Papilė (and surrounding parishes)

    Papilės (ir aplinkinių parapijų) Palčiauskai/Palčevskiai/Palczewski

  • Suomen kansanedustajat vuodesta 1907 – Members of the Finnish Parliament since 1907

    Projekti on tarkoitettu kaikille Suomen valtiopäivillä vuodesta 1907 työskennelleiden kansanedustajien profiileille. Kun liität profiilin tähän projektiin, tarkista, että siitä ilmenee miten henkilö liittyy projektiin ja milloin tämä on toiminut kansanedustajana. Täydennä profiilin tiedot tarvittaessa. Tietoa yksittäisistä kansanedustajista ja heidän luottamustoimistaan löytyy Eduskunnan verkko...

  • Conservatives & Classical Liberals

    =IMPORTANT= =PLEASE READ THE FOOTNOTES OF THIS INTERNATIONAL PROJECT= ABOUT CONSERVATISM & CONSERVATIVES " Conservatism, political doctrine that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices. Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal . This preference has traditionally rested on an organic conception of society...

  • Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

    The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 (Turkish: 93 Harbi, lit. 'War of ’93', named for the year 1293 in the Islamic calendar; Russian: Русско-турецкая война, romanized: Russko-turetskaya voyna, "Russian–Turkish war") was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire, and including Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus...

  • Weavers

    Please add Geni profiles with the occupation of "weaver" to this project. is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. (Weft or wo...

  • Village Mustola Locality Lappee and Lappeenranta

    This is a village project of Mustola in old locality Lappee (now part of the Lappeenranta). Purpose of the project is to collect all the people profiles born, lived or died in this village.Join also larger projects and surrounding locality projects: == Suomi ja Karjala ===== Karjala ===* Lappeenranta * Lauritsala * Nuijamaa * Ylämaa * Joutseno * Vahviala

  • Eesti Õigeusu Vaimulikud

    Projekti eesmärk on koondada ja koguda läbi ajaloo Eesti õigeusu kogudustes tegutsenud vaimulikke. Õigeusu kirikus loetakse vaimulike hulka lisaks preestrile ja diakonile ka köster-salmilugeja, kes preestrite kõrval aitasid läbi viia jumalateenistusi, osalesid kirikutalitustel, korraldasid koguduse asju, olid õpetajad kihelkonnakoolides. Õigeusu vaimulike hierarhia alustades kõrgemast astmest...

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