Operation Teardrop: The following description was copied from Wikipedia. Operation Teardrop was a United States Navy operation during World War II, conducted between April and May 1945, to sink German U-boats approaching the Eastern Seaboard that were believed to be armed with V-1 flying bombs. Germany had threatened to attack New York with V-1 flying bombs and rocket U-boats. After the war...
USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136): Frederick C. Davis: A Virtual Cemetery created by John Dowdy USS Frederick C. Davis I wish to express my profound gratitude to John Dawdy for his work, for without it the project could not be expanded on. Also, I wish to express my profound gratitude to the crew of the U.S.S. F.C. Davis and those involved in Operation Teardrop, for without ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carlton County, Minnesota. Official Website Under a 1854 Treaty of La Pointe the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and other reservations were established in exchange of all of the Lake Superior Ojibwe lands in the Arrowhead Region. In 1857, Carlton county was formed and organized in 1870. It was named for Reuben B. Carlton, a member ...
This project is part of the State of South Carolina Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from California. You can add profiles for: People born in South Carolina People who lived in South Carolina People who died in South Carolina When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, South Carolina . Official Website Overview Anderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Named for Revolutionary War leader Robert Anderson , the county is located in northwestern South Carolina, along the Georgia border. Anderson County contains 55,950-acre Lake Hartwell, a U.S. Army C...
Please add profiles of those people who were born, lived or died in the city or county of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Official City Website Official County Website History The area where Tulsa now exists was considered Indian Territory when it was first formally settled by the Lochapoka and Creek tribes in 1836, They established a small settlement under the Creek Council Oak Tree at the present-day in...
This project is part of the State of Oklahoma Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Oklahoma. You can add profiles for:* People born in Oklahoma* People who lived in Oklahoma* People who died in OklahomaWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have projects rel...
Medical Personnel who Served in Vietnam: This project is for Medical Personnel who served in Vietnam.
Authors of Children's Literature These writers are notable authors of children's literature with some of their most famous works. This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. A Verna Aardema (1911–2001) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Rafael Ábalos (born 1956) Grimpow Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) Rollo series, Cousin Lucy's Conversations , Bruno Tony Abb...
Please add any American who was Catholic to this project.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Iowa. Official Website The county was formed on December 21, 1837 and named after US President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties Dubuque County Jones County Jo Daviess County, Illinois Carroll County, Illinois Clinton County Cities Andrew Baldwin Bellevue La Motte Maquoketa (County Seat) M...
From America's Top Killing Machine For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers ...
This project aims to organize genealogical data on people who were born, lived or died in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines. Find more projects at the Philippine Portal . Wikipedia
This project aims to organize genealogical data on people who were born, lived or died in Atimonan, Quezon, Philippines. Find more projects at the Philippine Portal .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chickasaw County, Iowa. Official Website Chickasaw County was founded in January 1851. It was named after the Chickasaw tribe, which lived in the Southern United States at the time. The first nonindigenous settlers arrived in 1848 and the first county seat was from 1854 in Bradford, in the southwestern corner of the county. In the ...
Tracing the roots of the Mennonites and Hutterites who moved from German speaking lands, including modern day Germany, Austria, Hungary and Poland to Russia (modern day Ukraine), where they lived for about a century before coming to America and Canada. Includes direct ancestors shortly before the move to Russian controlled lands (1650) and direct ancestors up to about 1950 of those who arrived ...
Farming is not a glamourous job, but American farmers have kept us fed for decades. They worked hard, and should not be overlooked in our history. Wives of farmers are included in this project, because they worked just as hard as their husbands.
This project celebrates figure skaters who have represented the United States at International Skating Union events , such as the World Championships or Winter Olympics, as members of Team USA. Both past and present figure skaters, male and female, are covered by the scope of the project. The fields of figure skating in the United States include men's, women's (formerly "ladies'"), pairs, ice d...
The purpose of this portal is to collect and showcase all of the Geni projects on Brazillian Universities. They will be listed in Alphabetical order by Province. Law Schools will be listed under their host university. The same goes for any other School or Faculty that has a project. Acre Alagoas Amapá Amazonas Bahia Ceará Espírito Santo Goiás Maranhão Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Minas Gera...
Rakhiv was part of the Kingdom of Hungary (11th century - 1920 and 1938-1944) with the name of Rahó in the Máramaros megye (county) and Máramaros járás (district), next part of Czechoslovakia (1920-1938) with the name Rachov in Podkarpatská Rus (Sub-Carpathia), then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1945-1991) with the name of Rakhov and, since 1991, known as Rakhiv in the Rakhiv...
Riga Technical University (RTU) (Latvian: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte) is the oldest technical university in the Baltic countries established on October 14, 1862. It is located in Riga, Latvia and was previously known as 'Riga Polytechnical Institute' and 'Riga Polytechnicum'.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1859. Its Menominee name is Kewāneh, an archaic name for a species of duck. Adjacent Counties Door County Brown County Manitowoc County Benzie County, Michigan Manistee County, Michigan Cities, Villages & Towns Ahnapee Al...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839. Adjacent Counties * Kenosha County, Wisc. * McHenry County * Cook County Cities *Highland Park*Highwood*Lake Forest*North Chicago*Park ...
Wikipedia =Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational, Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universit...