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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Official Website This area was long occupied by the Ojibwe people, known as Chippewa in the United States. In addition, numerous Dakota people lived in central and southern Minnesota before European settlement. European Americans established a trading post by 1837 in this area, on the east side of the Mi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Official Website The county's name comes from Italian adventurer Giacomo Beltrami, who explored the area in 1825. The county was created in 1866 and organized in 1896. Portions of the Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian reservations are in the county. The northernmost portion of the Mississippi River flows th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 and was named after the Sheboygan River. Adjacent Counties Manitowoc County Calumet County Ozaukee County Washington County Fond du Lac County Cities & Villages Adell Cascade Cedar Grove Elkhart Lake Glenbeulah Howards Grove Ko...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1875 and named after President Abraham Lincoln. Adjacent Counties Langlade County Oneida County Marathon County Taylor County Price County Cities, Towns & Communities Birch | Birch | Bradley | Bundy | Clifford (part) | Corning | Doering | Dudley | ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Official Website Eau Claire county was originally set off as the Town of Clearwater in Chippewa County in 1855. The name was changed to the Town of Eau Claire on March 31, 1856. The entire town was separated as Eau Claire County by an act of the Wisconsin State Legislature on October 6, 1856. Adjacen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Official Website Buffalo County, founded in 1853, is named for the Buffalo River, which flows from Strum to Alma, where it empties into the Mississippi River. The Buffalo River obtained its name from the French voyager Father Louis Hennepin, who named it Riviere des Boeufs in 1680. The first permanent sett...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Minnesota. Early development in the area was on the St. Croix River, which now forms the boundary with Wisconsin on the county's eastern side. The river provided a waterway to move settlers upstream and to transport logs downstream. The heavily forested area fostered an early logging and lumber economy. The area's fir...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Collier County, Florida. The county was created in 1923 from Lee County. It was named for Barron Gift Collier , a New York City advertising mogul and real estate developer who had moved to Southwest Florida and established himself as a prominent landowner. He agreed to build the Tamiami Trail for what was then Lee County (comprising tod...
Nederlandse Legionairs in het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen ‧ 1831-1962 . . . Vanaf de oprichting in 1831, tot het vertrek uit Sidi-Bel-Abbes (Algerije) in 1962, hebben naar schatting zo’n 3.000 Nederlanders in het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen gediend. . bronnen ‧ documentatie ‧ informatie ...aanvulling welkom! . . ——A—— Wouter Johannes Christiaan ABRAMSEN ‧ 1937-x ‧ Johan...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Barron County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1859 as Dallas County (named after Vice President George M. Dallas ), with the county seat located at Barron. It was renamed Barron County on March 4, 1869. The county took the name Barron in honor of Wisconsin lawyer and politician Henry D. Barron , who served as ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, California. Orange County, often known by its initials O.C., is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, and more...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Official Website Jefferson County was created in 1836 as part of Wisconsin Territory and was organized in 1839. Jefferson County was founded by "Yankee" settlers from New England and was named after Jefferson County, New York Adjacent Counties Dodge County Dane County Rock County Waukesha Count...
Butte County is named for the Sutter Buttes in neighboring Sutter County; butte means "small knoll" or "small hill" in French. Butte County was incorporated as one of California's 27 original counties on February 18, 1850. The county went across the present limits of the Tehama, Plumas, Colusa, and Sutter Counties. Between November 8 and 25, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed mos...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1853 and was named for President James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Burnett County Barron County Dunn County St. Croix County Chisago County, Minnesota Washington County, Minnesota Cities & Villages
Please add profiles for those who were born in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Official Website St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840 by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. Sources vary on the origin of the name; the St. Croix River may have been named after Monsieur St. Croix, an explorer who drowned at the mouth of the river ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkin County, Minnesota. In 1849, the newly organized Minnesota Territory legislature authorized the creation of nine large counties across the territory. One of those, Pembina (later renamed as Kittson), contained areas that were partitioned off on 8 March 1858 to create Toombs County, named after Robert Toombs (1810–85) of Georgia...
Social Reformers and Revolutionaries Please link Geni profiles of reformers and revolutionaries to this project - notables can be added to the list below. See also Dissident Freedom Activists Worldwide Definitions: Reformer - a disputant who advocates reform Revolutionary - a person engaged in political revolution. Bold links are to Geni Profiles. A Pedro Abad Santos ,...
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The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.It appears that the term "Army of the Tennessee" was first used within the Union Army in March 1862, to describe Union forces perhaps more properly described as the "Army of West Tennessee"; these were the troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Union'...
This project is for all profiles / documents containing a Lithuanian Internal Passport. For the period 1919-1940, every Lithuanian citizen age 17 or older was required to have an internal passport. These passports could only be used to travel within Lithuania. However, these internal passports were not issued for the purpose of traveling - these were personal identification documents every Lit...
TARNOW, city in Poland, 45 mi. (72 km.) E. of Cracow. Jewish Cemetery video The presenter is Adam Bartosz, Director of the Okregowego Museum in Tarnow. The presentation is in Polish. Only some of the headstones are legible.===Background===Jewish merchants in Tarnow are mentioned in a few sources of the 15th century. The growth of the community and development of its institutions in the 1630s wa...
Merge with This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Sędziszów Małopolski, Poland, also known as Sendeshov, Sędziszów, Sęziszów, Sendishev, Sendziszov, Shendeshov. Gesher Galicia-Sędziszów Małopolski Google Study Group. David Jacobowitz Notes.