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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Genesee County, New York. Official Website The archaeological record at the Hiscock Site, in Byron, New York goes back to the Ice Age. Researchers have found a variety of manmade tools, ceramics, metal, and leather, along with a mastodon jaw, tusks, and teeth, and assorted animal bones, indicating long occupation of the site. This ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, New York. Official Website On April 12, 1816, Hamilton County was created by partitioning 1,800 square miles from Montgomery County, organized in 1847, and is named for Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United St...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, New York. Official Website Established in 1805, The county is named after Morgan Lewis, the Governor of New York at the time. Adjacent Counties Herkimer County Jefferson County Oswego County St. Lawrence County Oneida County Towns, Villages, Hamlets & Communities Beaver Falls | Castorland | Constablevil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rockland County, New York. Official Website The area that became Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape. The Tappan tribe had a particularly noteworthy presence in the area, extending from present-day Nyack, south to Sparkill and Tappan, down the Hackensac...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schoharie County, New York. Official Website The large territory of the county (much of upstate and western New York) was long occupied by the Mohawk Nation and, to the west, the other four tribes of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (increased to six with the migration of the Tuscarora from the South to New York in 1722). After Europea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Steuben County, New York. Official Website The county was created in 1796 and was named in honor of Baron von Steuben, a Prussian general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same. There is no direct link between Baron von Steuben and modern Steuben County, which he never...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, died or are buried in Sullivan County, New York. Official Website Established in 1809, the county's name honors Major General John Sullivan, who was labeled at the time as a hero in the American Revolutionary War in part due to his successful campaign of genocide against the Iroquois (see Sullivan Expedition). The county was the site of hund...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ulster County, New York. When part of the New Netherland colony, Dutch traders first called the area of present-day Ulster County "Esopus", a name borrowed for convenience from a locality on the opposite side of the Hudson. The local Lenape indigenous people called themselves Waranawanka, but soon came to be known to the Dutch as th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wyoming County, New York. Official Website The county was created in 1841 and is modified from a Lenape (Delaware) Native American word meaning "broad bottom lands". Adjacent Counties Genesee County Livingston County Allegany County Cattaraugus County Erie County Towns, Hamlets & Settlements Arcade | Attica | Benning...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived, died or are buried in Washington County, New York. Official Website The county was created in 1772 and named for U.S. President George Washington. Adjacent Counties Essex County Addison County, Vermont Warren County Saratoga County Rensselaer County Bennington County, Vermont Rutland County, Vermont
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, New York. Official Website In 1808, Franklin County was split off from Clinton County and organized. It was named after United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the early decades many landowners basically were subsistence farmers. In the late 1880s and 1890s, both the Delaware and Hudson and New York Cen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schenectady County, New York. Official Website This area of the river valley was historically occupied by the Mohawk people, the easternmost of the Five Nations comprising the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee. They cultivated maize fields in the flats along the Mohawk River and had villages in the hills. European settlement st...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Chemung County, New York. Official Website Chemung County was formed from 520 square miles of Tioga County in 1836. In 1854, Chemung County was divided and 110 square miles became Schuyler County, reducing Chemung to 410 square miles, its current size. In the late 1870s, the Greenback Party became prominent in Chemung and nearby c...
Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) was instituted on 15 July 1941. The Oak Leaves with Swords clasp was similar in appearance to the Oak Leaves clasp with the exception that a pair of crossed swords were soldered to the base of the Oak Leaves. 147 officia...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, Kansas . Official Website In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1855, Anderson Count...
Het bekende Rotterdammers project Deze master lijst van Rotterdammers geeft een overzicht van bekende personen die in Rotterdam zijn geboren, wonen of hebben gewoond Natuurlijk zijn er meer bekende Rotterdammers dus toevoegen aan het projekt mag. Alle personen zijn onder verdeeld in verschillende groepen zoals, kunst, schrijvers, politiek, sport en overige in sub projekten om het overzicht eenv...
A project mapping the genealogy of families associated with Montreal's (Westmount) historic Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.
АНТОНОВКА - село Больше-Янасальской волости Тетюшского уезда Казанской губернии Российской Империи.
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Pacov (Patzau) in Bohemia, Czech Republic. General Information: "History of the Jews in Patzau/Pacov" by Jan Zoubek, from Hugo Gold's book Die Juden und Judengemeinde Bohmens in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart . Original German/Czech with photos | English translation JewishGen's Pacov locality page has a map and some li...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The commonwealth borders Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to t...
This Project is created to bring together those with the Surname "Kaverin"/ "Koverin"
Yapryntsevo human settlement in Perevolotsky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia
1. detsembri 1924 riigipöördekatse mahasurujad (EV poolel võidelnud)* Punaste poolel võidelnute projekt:
Tallinna Kaitseväe e Sõjaväe kalmistu (allikates eksitavalt Siselinna k osa) Olete teretulnud kõik need kes soovivad oma lähedased seoses selle rahupaigaga ära märkida ja projekti lisada. Seni Genis eraldi puudunud kalmistu, mis on vaid Tallinna Siselinna kalmistu projektis mainitud. Tallinna Sõjaväekalmistu ehk Kaitseväe kalmistu Tallinnas , ka Tallinna garnisoni kalmistu Projekt "Kait...
Olete teretulnud kõik need kes soovivad oma lähedased seoses selle rahupaigaga ära märkida ja projekti lisada. 'Projekt "Siivertsi kalmistu" koondab neid, kes on aegade jooksul seal oma rahu leidnud. * ]