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Whispering Pines Cemetery Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Scope of Project This project aims to identify Pirates and Privateers on the high seas. Overview Piracy is a war-like act committed by private parties (not affiliated with any government) that engage in acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons...
Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754 from First People of Tennessee Traders to the Catawbas Robert Steel Robert Tool Mathew Toole Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina James Adair The Augusta Company James Baldridg Charles Banks William Bates James and Thomas Beamer Samuel Benn Robert Bunning John Butler Cornelius Daugherty Anthony ...
World War II Victory Medal:
This project is about Blacks that lived during and participated in World War II. The struggles and hardships that they had to enduring during the war--fighting for their own freedom against racism and discrimination on the homefront and on the battlefield. >>>> Project Photo ' = Real African American History - World War II (1939 - 1945)== A Short Timeline ==1939-45 - "The treatment accorded the...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, New York. Official Website Orange County was officially established on November 1, 1683, when the Province of New York was divided into twelve counties. Each of these was named to honor a member of the British royal family, and Orange County took its name from the Prince of Orange, who subsequently became King Willia...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, New Jersey. Official Website All of present-day Union County was part of the Elizabethtown Tract, which was purchased in 1664, by English colonists from the Lenape Indians that lived in the area of present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Union County was formed on March 19, 1857 and was the last of New Jersey's 21 counties ...
Patriot Hunt! Curator Faustine Darsey on partial hiatus writes: ”I do lots of merges & have noticed that the only way for me to find them is to search for them. They are not showing up (lots of the time) as duplicates by geni.com. When I search for Patriots of the American Revolution and their descendants, sometimes I will merge 3 to 7 trees just listing the Patriot with different children....
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Alabama. Official Website Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Legislature. It was named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson. In a study of lynchings in the South from 1877 to 1950, Jefferson County is documented as having the highest number of lynchings of any county in...
Official Website The town was founded in the postbellum era by the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, named after Henry Bessemer and owned by coal magnate Henry F. DeBardeleben. He had inherited Daniel Pratt's investments. The mayor and councilmen voted to incorporate the city of Bessemer on September 9, 1887. Located 16 miles southwest of Birmingham, Bessemer grew rapidly and its promoters...
Surveyors work with elements of geometry, trigonometry, regression analysis, physics, engineering, metrology, programming languages, and the law. They use equipment, such as total stations, robotic total stations, GPS receivers, retroreflectors, 3D scanners, radios, handheld tablets, digital levels, subsurface locators, drones, GIS, and surveying software. Surveying has been an element in the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Alabama. Official Website The county was created by the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on February 13, 1818, preceding Alabama's statehood by almost two years. It was created from land acquired from the Chickasaw Indians by the Treaty of 1816. It was named in honor of General Francis Marion (1732–1795), an Ameri...
This project is on History Link Prominent Historians and Philosophers Prominent Historians and Philosophers who have made major contributions to our understanding of our world and the human condition. 30em> Photo: The School of Athens by Raphael Selected profiles list by activity period: BCE Pythagoras - Ὁ Πυθαγόρας (c. 570 BCE – c. 495 BCE ) Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematici...
People doing philosophy (in a wide sense) from antiquity to recent times and across cultures.
Princeton University Official Website Wikipedia Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural scienc...
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline). The two most common bachelor's degrees are the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Science (BS or BSc). In...
Wikipedia Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of 1,545 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. The school was organized by a Committee of Quakers f...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal This project is for the enslaved that became free or never enslaved; Children born to colored free women. (see Partus Sequitur Ventrem) Mulatto children born to white indentured or free women mixed-race children born to free Native American women. (The emancipation in the 1860's) Freed Slaves, Freedmen or Free people of Color Slaves who escaped from th...
From Wikipedia : Person of color The term "person of color" is today primarily used in the United States to describe any person who is not considered white. The term encompasses all non-white people, emphasizing common experiences of systemic racism. The term may also be used with other collective categories of people such as "communities of color", "men of color", and "women of color". The t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Perry County, Alabama. Official Website The county was established in 1819 and is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. Adjacent Counties Marengo County Dallas County Hale County Bibb County Chilton County Cities & Communities Adler Augustin Folsom Hamburg...
Wikipedia =______________The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes more simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th-century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from Confederate General ...
Official Web Site =This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to Spotsylvania County Virginia. See the Related Projects for details. Patrick Sullivan has written a fantastic series of blogs about various of the Ancient Ancestors in the Spotsylvania county and surrounding area. He began with the Row family, but has expanded to many of the collateral families kin by blood or ma...
Medical Personnel who Served in Vietnam: This project is for Medical Personnel who served in Vietnam.
Roman Catholics who served in Vietnam
The Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross also known as the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross or Vietnam Cross of Gallantry (Vietnamese: Anh-Dũng Bội-Tinh) is a military decoration of the former Government of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam). The medal was created on August 15, 1950, and was awarded to military personnel, civilians, and Armed Forces units and organizations in recognition of deeds of ...