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For those who don't know, Colbert's dad was a BFD in the civil rights movement.
Edit : a quote to source it. " Dr. Colbert was particularly noted for his pivotal role in negotiating a peaceful resolution to the volatile and racially-divisive 1969 Hospital Workers Strike. He had long been a fervent advocate for civil rights, including attending Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with his family. His activism on behalf of civil rights also led him to become a personal friend of, among others, Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. In 1960, he had met with future president John F. Kennedy."
http://www.geni.com/people/Dr-James-W-Jim-Colbert-Jr/6000000008210321534
Actually Ford is Washington's fifth cousin 6 times removed:
George Washington, 1st President of the USA
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Mary Washington his mother
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Col. Joseph Ball, of "Epping Forest" her father
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Hannah Ball his mother
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Thomas Atherold, III her father
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Mary Hannah Atherold (Vessey) his mother
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Sybil Porter her sister
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John Porter, Jr., of Windsor her son
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Sarah Judson (Porter) his daughter
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Ruth Welles (Judson, twin) her daughter
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Ruth Welles her daughter
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Wells Ely her son
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Amy Gridley his daughter
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Elizabeth Ely Butler her daughter
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Amy Gridley Ayer her daughter
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Adele Augusta Gardner her daughter
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Dorothy Ayer Ford her daughter
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Gerald Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States her son
Except Einstein's parents weren't first cousins.
For them to be first cousins, they would share grandparents:
Father: Hermann Einstein
father: Abraham Einstein (father: Rupert Einstein, mother: Rebeka Obenauer)
mother: Helene Moos (father: Heinrich Hayum Moos, mother: Verena Schmal)
Mother: Pauline Koch
father: Julius Koch (father: Zadok D. Koch, mother: Blumle Sintheimer)
mother: Jette Bernheimer (father: Gedalja Bernheimer, mother: Elcha Weil)
His dad was an MD, and vice president of student affairs at a medical school in Charleston. His mom was a homemaker. I don't know if that would make you that wealthy. Maybe in the late 60s/early 70s?
His family did apparently move nearer downtown after his father died, so his younger childhood would probably not have been spent there.
EDIT: This was his dad. Shit, that man did everything - at 32, he was assistant dean at of Yale's medical school, moved many different places. He could have been a wealthy man.
> One of the stories told about such advocacy: There was once an ignorant wagon driver who was busy greasing his wagon's axles and wheels while praying wrapped in his Tallis and Tefillin. This ridiculous sight might have caused some to laugh and jeer or others to admonish him with indignation. However Rav Levi Yitzhak grew excited at the sight and declared heavenwards "Master of the World! Ribbono Shel Olam, gaze upon your nation Israel, see how they are so attached and connected to you! Even with they are fixing their wheels and greasing their axles they do not forget about you!" (Toldos Kedushas Levi Munkacz 6:87)
http://www.geni.com/people/Rabbi-Levi-Yitzchak-Derbaremdiker/6000000001633520297
Literally a centuries old repost (he was born in 1740).
All right, well, that should help you :
http://www.geni.com/people/Guillaume-Fournier/5701987824890041489
http://www.oocities.org/heartland/bluffs/9498/fournier.htm (if you want a translation, PM me and I'll do it)
EDIT : You'll be glad to know he owned 3 rifles, 12 oxens and 17 acres of land !
It's funny how we all started getting it at the same time. I bet we went through the same process of seeing the guy who posted Aisla Craig, ending up some place like this and then working it out from there.
Edit: or people who are actually from Scotland and know the answer anyway...
Hunstman is as big a globalist as the rest of the neo-con Republicans. Sadly, I don't trust him and would not vote for him either
http://www.geni.com/blog/look-whos-related-mitt-romney-and-jon-huntsman-371593.html
the trick is not having the ancestor, it's being able to trace it back
My grandmother did a lot of work tracing her genealogy until it met up with someone whose prominent genealogy had already been traced, including Charlemagne.
And they know with certainty 8 generations before him and speculate about 80
Did some research Mill, in New Kent, VA And also a Benjamin Arnold from the late 1600's to early 1700's, that lived in New Kent, VA who's wife died of giving birth 10 years before Benjamin That is some weird stuff.
Why? She had zero agency in the generation of HeLa cells. That's like having a national day of recognition for Willis J. Armstrong, the grandfather of Neil, just because something that he produced went on to later produce the first man on the moon. He didn't do any of the work. He didn't do anything outside of his normal activities, but without him the moon landing would have been in jeopardy. So let's give him and Henrietta Lacks a combined holiday and call it "Terrific Happenstance Day".
The famous Reb Zusya parable:
The students of Reb Zusya, hearing that their teacher was about to die, came to pay him one last visit. But entering the room, they were surprised to see him trembling with fear.
“Why are you afraid of death?” they asked. “In your life, have you not been as righteous as Moses himself?”
“When I stand before the throne of judgment,” Zusya answered, “ I will not be asked, ‘Reb Zusya, why were you not like Moses?’ I will be asked , ‘Reb Zusya, why were you not like Zusya?”
-copied from http://www.geni.com/people/Rabbi-Zusha-of-Anipoli/6000000007044844180
For what it is worth, Mark Hopkins, 1739 - 1776. According to this book, he was NOT a Colonel in the French and Indian Wars. He would have been a lawyer at that time. He joined the Continental Army in 1776, dying that year at White Plains.
So clearly the hat was not passed on during the French and Indian Wars if that is, in fact, the Col. Mark Hopkins in question.
the 72nd Regiment of Foot only gained the "Duke of Albany's Own" title in 1823 - nor was he even the Duke of Albany at all until 1784 -so Albany clearly isn't related to that.
So it clearly can be established this hat actually came into the possession of Col. Hopkins in 1775-1776, but why it says Albany would seem to be much less clear. The only explanation is that there was a previous Regiment which was titled after the previous Duke of Albany, but he died in 1767.
Edit: The Royal Marines has a "Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot" existed from 1664 to 1689.
There is not one French Crown, there were actually 20 of them stashed at the Basilica of Saint-Denis where the vast majority of French kings and their close family are buried.
The crown displayed at the Louvres Museum is unfortunately the only one from the pre-Revolution era (Ancient Régime) that was spared by the revolutionnaries when they sacked the Basilica :
The crown you saw is probably the one that belonged to Louis XV but we have plenty other items that are considered a part of the French Crown Jewels collection like Napoleon and Josephine's Crowns (yes, 11 years after they pillaged the Basilica, we had someone crowning himself Emperor of France and taking full control of the country ...)
Jan Cornelius Van Texel, my first European ancestor in America
>Around 1624, Wyandance, Sachem of the Montauk an Indian Tribe on Long Island , gave him his daughter, Catoneras, in marriage. She was one of fourteen Indian women taken into captivity by Ninigret, chief of the Narrangansetts,and afterwards ransomed throughthe intervention of Lion Gardiner. Of this marriage, one son was born in 1625 at Fort Amsterdam, Manhattan Island, and named after his father, Jan Cornelius Van Texel.
http://www.geni.com/people/Elias-Eli-Sanders/6000000027756093071
*Bernie Sanders fathers original surname. Meant to demonstrate the complete hypocrisy of the oliver hit job. Also 'Ted' Cruz' name is Rapheal.
Actually i thought it was quite nice, looking forward to it.
/unjerk
Generally it's better to trace a specific family line rather than a surname, but in this case "Swetzof" appears to be a quite unusual name, found predominantly in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. If you or your recent Swetzof ancestors came from this area, you may well descend from a branch of this family, and your family name may once have been the Russian "Shvetsov".
His original Lithuanian surname was most likely Almonaitis, not Almonitis(I guess he modified it a little so it would be easier for the english speaking people to pronounce it).I've tried to google surname Almonaitis and there is quite a few Lithuanians with that surname.Your great grandfathers Lithuanian name most likely was a Juozas or Juozapas(Lithuanian version of Joseph) AlmonaitisThere is no town named golgandiskis, but there is this http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelgaudiškis
It's most likely a coincidence but when I googled Juozas Almonaitis I've found this http://www.geni.com/people/Juozas-Almonaitis/6000000011398049828 Juozas is a short version of Juozapas, but both version can be and is used as a name tho Juozas is more common.
Hope that helps
Yep ezpz.
If you are Kyle, then maybe you have something concrete to show that this is his birth date.
If it is, here is another passenger list from 1933 with a birth date that matches the SSDI.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 1927 is him as well.
Ok I'm really puzzled now. And slightly elated. http://www.geni.com/people/Gwendoline-Barnard/6000000028735871476
Thats my great grandfathers name under there. Don't know who put this up. But someone else is searching from some other end. But more interestingly, Her mother is Catherine Radziwill ?!?!?!?
Well, as to the "running towards battle" thing, it symbolizes the flag back from the days of line battles, where the flag would be carried into the fight. As they marched/charged into battle, the flag would stream "backwards", like here.
it's the same school.. just because a school closes and reopens doesn't mean it's an entirely new entity each time. And we became a university in 1865 - Little opposition developed to change the College into a university and bill to establish the University of South Carolina was passed by the General Assembly on December 19, 1865.
Does UAB get a whole new football program next year, or will it be considered a continuation of there previous program?
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Yup,
> When WWI broke out, the Jews, eager to demonstrate their loyalty to their country, rallied to the war effort. They hoped that military service would promote their acceptance into German and Austro-Hungarian society. Some 320,000 Jewish soldiers joined the army---12,000 Jewish soldiers died fighting on the German side in World War I.
No problem. After comparing /u/xanaboobs's transcription to the photos, it was a lot easier to figure out what it actually said. Some parts are still not clear, but you get the gist. I tried to see if I could find any information about P.R. Falkner and this genealogy website came up with a similarly named baby born in Bilbao in 1844, so perhaps you're related to this baby. And if it's the same P.R. Falkner, this could be your family tree.
I'm trying to understand if there's any relevance to that. Lenin's grandfather converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity as a teenager. In fact, Lenin's great-grandfather was alienated from the Jewish community and converted to Christianity after his wife died. So Lenin didn't grow up as religiously or culturally Jewish and wouldn't have known any more Jews that any other Russian.
My googlefu tells me it's Scott, but that's literally the only source anywhere on the web. Chances are, he didn't have one. Wasn't really needed back then, as far as I know.
> Your argument is that we have black serial killers? Sure. > There's more white serial killers, though. A higher proportion, in fact.
As of October 2014 South Africa had 160 recorded serial killers since 1950.
I'm not undersexed. Moron. I usually stop responding to people who say stupid shit like that, but I want to prove your nigger ass wrong. You people always come and say the same stupid ass shit. Well, you're wrong nigger.
>The latest study by Dabbs et al., which pooled data from two groups of prisoners, measured testosterone levels in the saliva of 692 adult male prisoners. The researchers found that inmates who committed crimes of sex and violence had higher testosterone levels than inmates who were incarcerated for property crimes or drug abuse. In addition, they say, "inmates with higher testosterone levels... violated more rules in prison, especially rules involving overt confrontation."
There is a cemetery in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA that was founded in 1670. It is near my childhood home and I've visited it many times. I came across a tombstone for Mr. John Moss. According to the stone he was born in 1604 and died in 1707, which meant he had lived to age 103 in the 16th century. That has always amazed me and I visit his grave every time I pass through. I can't imagine what he must have seen during his life.
It's both. It's a nickname which was given to a particular member of the Julius clan at some point - and which he then passed on to his sons, grandsons, and so on. The Julii Caesarii were therefore a branch of the Julius clan. In the middle Republic, there were other branches, such as the Julius Libo branch, and the Julius Mento branch. However, by the late Republic, there is evidence only of the Julius Caesar branch.
Neither. It is an item of historical interest.
FWIW, I have some direct relatives who fought for the Kaiser in WWI, and a distant relative who is pictured wearing some kind of Nazi-era uniform.
They also have gods, like Enki and Zeus. Since my family's oral tradition says I'm descended from Woden I'm a bit conflicted right now. I mean, I'm an Atheist and all, but HERE"S PROOF I'M DESCENDED FROM A M'F'IN' GOD!!!
Somewhat shameful - one of my direct ancestors pretty much an evil guy, Captain William Tucker. Owner of the first slave in the colonies (ahem, indentured servant) and perpetrator of the Powhatan Massacre of 1622.
http://www.geni.com/people/Capt-William-Tucker-of-Kiccowtan/6000000003853772881
Minnie Mae died at 1980, aged almost 90. She outlived both Elvis and Vernon (who died in 1979.)
Here is his maternal grandfather
http://www.geni.com/people/Oliver-Hely/4796766184570041613
And this is Donoughmore.
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/D/Donoughmore-East-Muskerry-Cork.php
So why don't you acknowledge the Norwegian origins, you island-dwelling upstart?
http://www.geni.com/people/Ing%C3%B3lfur-Arnarson/6000000003214979783, there is at least one chain leading up to Odinn himself.
So you can refer casually to "My 50-great grandfather Odinn, who was a god..."
Wanna know what's really weird?
Pretty much every US president ever is related to George Washington.
http://www.geni.com/blog/look-whos-related-george-washington-and-all-the-presidents-325451.html
Some genealogy notes on Owen Chase, including from Nantucket Historical http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p373.htm#i11201 & http://www.geni.com/people/Capt-Owen-Chase/6000000017029291490
(Book) Stove by a Boat is a riveting telling of the Essex story
I considered Lillie at one point as a middle name because it was my great great grandmothers maiden name and I like the family history
http://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Lillie/6000000004537938143
People give surnames as middle names all the time so I wasn't concerned by the spelling.
I've searched on google to know if the killers were caught but I've found nothing. There was a Charles Sattler, father of eight, died in 1931, but it was 86 years old at that time and it would be weird to have three killers to shot an 86er http://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Sattler/6000000004847848737 I also wonder how those detectives can manage to find some criminals without surveillance camera records, without DNA's exams, without mobile phones' traceability
According to this site, he was a POW and released at Fort McHenry, MD, and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA, for exchange, by order of Gen. Schenck, March 28, 1863. His signature is noted as appearing "signature by his mark". I would really love to see that signature.
Stop using your remote control then. And usb drives. And text messaging. And make sure any kids you have do not get the polio vaccine. And no women you know can wear a bra or use "The Pill". No jeans (Levi Strauss was Jewish), no shopping carts, no LASIK eye surgery, no fax machines, no lasers, no defribrillator, no Waze app, and no streptomycin. Also, anything else on this list. Deal? Fuck you.
It currently has around 80 million connected profiles, and grows at a rate of about 7.5 million profiles per year. Note that not all people in the tree are blood relatives, as it also includes in-law connections.
Canadian; I started in my late 20's and have been going at it in occasional spurts for about 5 years (so early 30's now!), since I discovered Geni, which helped to make the process collaborative with an uncle of mine. Recently, as much more data's online (& freely available), I've started going deeper.
I and most of my recent ancestors are from Canada:
- Irish Ontarians (every stereotypical Irish surname that you could imagine!)
- Scottish PEI/NB/NS-folks (aka the Maritimes)
- French Quebeckers/Québécois (who occasionally strayed into the USA)
- & Albertan Germans from Russia.
... all of whom eventually had members move out to BC.
But to date, >95% all of my research has been limited to Canada & the USA.
The German side is most recent, whereas the others go back a few generations. For them I was actually able to find their arrival documented in the Ocean Arrivals collection by Library & Archives Canada, but there's little available to work from beyond that, although I do have a few documents from a brief time that they spent in Germany on their way to Canada. Beyond that it's mostly been Canadian & American census data, plus free Vermont & New York vital records on FamilySearch (where I've now duplicated my tree).
The oldest side that I have goes to someone born in 1783, but it seems likely that the Francophone side would have likely arrived before British rule of Quebec, so once I get a chance to explore that, I'll have a better idea just how deep my roots go in Canadian soil. For me it's just been a fascinating learning experience.
Note- Only other Ancestry members can see that link :)
You might want to contact the local historical society- they often charge, but it's usually a nominal fee just to cover the time of the employee/volunteer, and any photocopies you might want.
There's also the problem of different spellings for surnames, which I'm sure you've run into... Ok, also, one of the sites I've got my family tree on is geni.com. I just searched Daniel Summit, and I got this result which, if you can't see (I'm never sure if non-members can see results; some people know to make their branches 'public', some don't), has 4 results. Even if none of them are the exact person you're looking for, the similar family names might help- people on geni are usually pretty good at responding to queries.
If you need help, lemme know- I've got limited time right now, but I'm a Geni Pro user and can give a 1-week (or so) free trial of Pro where you can do a bunch of family tree searches.
Also, if you go to familysearch.org, you might get some results. As a precursory search, I see a few results but nothing real conclusive.
As a last resort, you might consider Craiglist. I know it sounds weird, but when searching for Norwegian ancestors in North Dakota, I left ads in N.Dak and Minnesota Craiglists and got a response. You never know! Good luck :)
You might also try:
This website is cheaper than Ancestry.com and when you search for your last name, you are given the ability to contact the 'owner' of the family tree that you think is the right one. I did this with my name and went from ~30 known relatives to 562 blood relatives going back to 1703 in the matter of a couple of days.
I sure am! I am part of the World Family Tree on geni.com, meaning there is a connection between me and everyone else who is also in the World Family Tree. To see if you are a member of the World Family Tree, enter your family tree into Geni and see if there are any matches in the World Family Tree. If so, you can merge your tree in and become a part of it.
Take a look at these super-close relatives of mine:
Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the USA is your wife's first cousin twice removed's husband's nephew's wife's fourth great uncle's wife's first cousin five times removed.
Mark Zuckerberg is your second great aunt's great niece's husband's brother's wife's aunt's husband's brother's ex-wife's son's ex-wife's nephew's wife's brother.
Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the USA is your wife's great uncle's wife's niece's husband's great aunt's husband's niece's husband's great nephew's wife's nephew's wife's father.
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom is your wife's great uncle's wife's great aunt's husband's second cousin twice removed's partner's nephew's wife.
Eddie Vedder is your sister-in-law's husband's third great uncle's wife's aunt's husband's great granddaughter's husband's third cousin once removed's ex-husband.
Leonard Nimoy is your wife's great uncle's wife's third great uncle's wife's second great nephew's wife's sister's husband's grandson's wife's sister's ex-husband.
Every year I look in the mail for birthday cards from everyone, but for some reason they never send anything. Family…
I think this is what the website http://www.geni.com is trying to achieve. If you create your family tree and it detects that some relative is already in the world tree, you can join it. I think it currently has several hundred milion people.
She does know that there really is no such thing as "witchcraft". Witches were make believe monsters used to scare people and to explain why bad things happened.
Crops did poorly, must've been a witch that cast a curse on us.
That and a way to persecute your neighbours because reasons.
I have an ancestor that was tried and burned as a witch in the 1600s in Germany because she was following Luther's teaching. They accused her of being a witch because of religious persecution. She actually survived being burned, and was thrown in a cell, where she vanished, it is believed that her husband bribed the guards and they let her go, where she escaped to the next county.
The idea of old hags around cauldrons is old german fairy tales. Like Hansel and Gretal type stuff, and even shows up in Shakespeare's MacBeth. But believing that Harry Potter promotes witchcraft is akin to saying "Harry Potter promotes House Elves and Hippogriffs"
My (I think) 3 and 4 times great grandfathers started the first Mennonite church in Pennsylvania, which was quite a surprise to the rest of the family now. Saw a document signed by William Penn giving them the rights to the land and such.
That same man, 3 times Great Granddad, was known as "Strong Isaac" for his incredible strength, which people said came from his family line being like part giants. (Side note: my great uncle was also noted for being taller and much stronger than average. Also, I'm 5'11, female, and I'm often told I don't know my own strength.) There was a nifty report in a paper about him being pestered by someone in a restaurant or something like that. The guy kept trying to get a reaction out of Great Granddad, but he just appeared to stay calm and focused on his own meal ignoring him until out of the blue, he stands up, picks up the pesky guy over his head, carries him over to the table from whence he came, and just slams the guy down in his chair, causing it to break beneath him. Then Granddad just walked back over to his own table and finished his meal without so much as a word. What a boss.
edit: it was a hotel he was staying at, not a restaurant. Also, the "bully" punched Great Granddad in the face, which was the final straw. People often tried to make him fight, since he was known for being so tough, but he was something of a pacifist. Source
That's the thing, there's no actual reference on the wikipedia because they too need a citation! I can't find any written texts, this is a legend passed around by word of mouth it seems. I did find this:
http://www.geni.com/people/Leopold-V-der-Tugendhafte-von-%C3%96sterreich/6000000001669640632
and then there's this:
Not sure how credible..
Ok how bout I rephrase the question as *Anyone got more interesting flag origin legends? *
We could just discuss the unsourced legends.
Just figured out the seller was likely this guy who was the grandson of William Carpenter
Well, I have heard many discrediting T. Agoncillo on his view on this since he is somehow related to the Aguinaldos given that the wife of Aguinaldo is Maria Agoncillo.
No, but it was enough of a problem in school and the army that's husband legally changed his last name from Brainerd to something less annoying for him.
The first Brainerd in the U.S. was brought over as an indentured servant when he was 8.
Wikipedia has one, showing their relations to other dynasties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_trees_of_the_Byzantine_imperial_dynasties#Komnenid.2C_Angelid.2C_Laskarid_and_Palaiologid_dynasties.2C_1057.E2.80.9359.2C_1081.E2.80.931453
There is this one, not a family tree per se but you can browse down and check the detailed lists of family members and their infos. It even includes the children who died at young age. This link starts with the first known ancestor of the Komnenos Dynasty.
http://www.geni.com/people/Isaac-Komnenos/6000000004680595668
I have been wondering how Lenin heard about Moffett's work, but I suppose it might have had something to do with Samuel Erasmus Moffett being the nephew of Mark Twain.
In any case, it is clear that if Lenin read only the first chapter of this brilliant work, he couldn't help but come to the conclusion that English-speaking Canadians aren't a separate nation from Euro-Americans.
Just wanted to point out that Fanny Alger's parents didn't die until the 1870s, so that isn't accurate.
http://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Alger/6000000002661992635
http://www.geni.com/people/Clarissa-Alger/6000000000196522573
Otherwise, solid work. Thanks for putting it together.
GLaDOS seems somewhat confused about adoption and foster parents. First she says there are two people with the same name as her, then she says she has a surprise for you that involves meeting two people you haven't seen in a long time, then she says "Oh come on... If it makes you feel any better, they abandoned you at birth, so I very seriously doubt they'd even want to see you."
Chell would have had her adoptive parents last name.
But there's a theory that in addition to Caroline being her birth mother, Cave Johnson is her birth father.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Cave+Johnson+birth+father
turns up one reference to the theory of Cave Johnson being her birth father, but also turns up a genealogy entry for some apparently real person named Cave Johnson.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/21529/is-cave-johnson-chells-father
Surely there are tons of them, the most of which we don't even recall (since they're the most forgotten after all).
The War of Jenkins' Ear has long been of interest merely due to the name. But it came to life recently when I visited the massive Spanish fort at Cartagena Colombia, which figured in the largest battle of the war. Standing atop the fortress -- kind of easy to see how the British had a tough time. And it's a war that most people have never even heard of.
I didn't find them either. It could be that they changed their last name. It looks like Bernard's brother, David, changed his last name to Williams (their mother's maiden name) according to a Geni tree.
'The camps were formed by the British army to house the residents of the two Boer republics of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. They were established towards the end of 1900, after Britain had invaded the Boer republics. The English term "concentration camp" was first used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during this conflict. The camps had originally been set up by the British Army as "refugee camps" to provide refuge for civilian families who had been forced to abandon their homes for one or other reason related to the war. However, when Kitchener succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief in South Africa in 29 November 1900, the British Army introduced new tactics in an attempt to break the guerrilla campaign and the influx of civilians grew dramatically as a result. Kitchener initiated plans to "flush out guerrillas in a series of systematic drives, organized like a sporting shoot, with success defined in a weekly 'bag' of killed, captured and wounded, and to sweep the country bare of everything that could give sustenance to the guerrillas, including women and children.... It was the clearance of civilians - uprooting a whole nation - that would come to dominate the last phase of the war." '
http://www.geni.com/projects/Anglo-Boere-Oorlog-Boer-War-1899-1902-British-Concentration-Camps/854
Where I got my info. I guess your source is maybe more informed. Can you send a link? I can't seem to get access to yours?
> The flood was supposed to have happened in 2348 B.C.
According to Watchtower Bible chronology, the global Flood of Noah’s day occurred in 2370 B.C.E.
>I think your dates are off, the construction dates for the Pyramids of Giza were 2584 B.C. to 2540 B.C
Pharoah Unas ruled Egypt between 2375 and 2345 BCE. His Pyramid is known for being the first tomb to have the "Pyramid Texts" inscribed on the walls.
He built a small pyramid at Saqqara, originally named "Beautiful are the places of Unas", close to the Step Pyramid of Djoser. It has been excavated by Vyse, Barsanti, Gaston Maspero, Firth, Selim Hassan, A. Husein, and Alexandre Piankoff. Its interior is decorated with a number of reliefs detailing events during his reign as well as a number of inscriptions. However, Jaromir Malek considers "the main innovation of Unas' pyramid, and one that was to be characteristic of the remaining pyramids of the Old Kingdom (including some of the queens), was the first appearance of the Pyramid Texts". These texts were inscribed in Sixth Dynasty royal versions, but Unas's texts contains verses and spells which were not included in the later 6th dynasty copies. The pyramid texts were intended to help the king in overcoming hostile forces and powers in the Underworld and thus join with the Sun God Ra, his divine father in the afterlife. The king would then spend his days in eternity sailing with Ra across the sky in a solar boat.
An example of a pyramid Text here is given below:
Re-Atum, this Unas comes to you, A spirit indestructible...Your son comes to you, This Unas comes to you, May you cross the sky united in the dark. May you rise in lightland, the place in which you shine! (Utterance 217)
I believe this might be some of the names in the book.
http://www.onshus.no/familygroup.php?familyID=F20663&tree=1
The last name is Olstad here, but according to this...
http://www.geni.com/people/Engebret-Hansen-Olstad/6000000020827573276
...it's the same guy.
Looks like they came from Ringebu or Fron in Norway.
I don't know if this is correct. Some dates and names are a little off, but it's 250 years ago, so...
Because there was definitely a Holtzhausen who married into the van Niekerk family, Martha Johanna Margaretha Van Niekerk. Even with a photo
I found a twist. http://www.geni.com/people/Gwendoline-Barnard/6000000028735871476
Thats my great grandfathers name under there. Don't know who put this up. But someone else is searching from some other end.
The Brits ran their empire with ruthless efficiency. Hitler admired the way the brutally suppressed populations in India and Africa. The first concentration camps were set up by the British. http://www.geni.com/projects/Anglo-Boere-Oorlog-Boer-War-1899-1902-British-Concentration-Camps/854
The Americans had a segregated military. The blacks that were allowed to serve were mostly employed as drivers and manual laborers. They didn't really get to fight until the Battle of the Bulge when the whites were short of men with guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Americans#World_War_II
Plus America had just finished up with their ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. Hitler also studied the American experience with the native tribes when formulating his final solution for the Jews.
The Russians starved millions to death and killed millions more through executions and Siberian concentration camps.
Well, somebody has to be the bad guy. That's how people deal with their own wickedness and weakness. It's like the drug war. You have to make drugs illegal. That way you can blame the drug dealers. If you make drug legal then you have no one to blame except for yourself. Someone has to be the bad guy. It's simpler that way. And since the Germans lost the war it was easy to point at them say "that's the bad guy." But really, for the Americans, Brits and Soviets to call out the Nazis for being mass murdering, ethnic cleansing, imperialists is laughable. The reason the Japs didn't go down in history as the ultimate villains is because they weren't white. They weren't good enough to be the ultimate evil. Whites are better at everything including being evil. Also the Japs don't have a Jewish controlled Hollywood. You can bet the Jews in Hollywood are going to do everything in their power to keep antisemitism from becoming government policy.
I can trace to a ton of cool Kings and nobles and whatnot, a couple of poets and scholars, but a really cool one to me is Sven Skute. He was the highest ranking Swedish officer to stay behind in New Sweden after it was taken from the Swedish. He also liked to chill with the Native Americans because they were cooler than the Dutch.
Edit: Almost every US president IIRC. Also Elizabeth II is my 8th Cousin, once removed. I also like the Normans. They were all lords of something. Oh, a note on the US presidents, I am closely related to Andrew Jackson. He is my first cousin, eight times removed. George Washington is my 2nd Cousin 8 times removed. There are several that are close. Oh, Ben Franklin is a first cousin x times removed.
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As an additional hint, the top comment says the following:
> ITT: OP being an asshole
This might give you a hint why the mods of /r/todayilearned decided to remove the link in question.
^(It could also be completely unrelated or unhelpful in which case I apologize. I'm still learning.)
A quick Google search found this. Looks like Margaret's first name may have been Coffin, and she married three times: to John Hall, then John Wilson, then Samuel Terry. I haven't checked Ancestry or Family Search, etc., yet. Hope this helps.
Her name was Anna Smith Strong. She left the clothes there to leave signals for the location of people in meetings. The spies together were called the "Culper Ring". It's actually really interesting. You can learn more about her here: http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Strong-Smith-Spy/6000000016130980712
> By which you mean they rounded several ethnic groups into death camps to kill them all... right? Because, you know, that's what the Nazis did in France.
Well the British did it to the Boers in SA. Who do you think invented the concentration camp?
"Eventually, there were a total of 45 tented camps built for Boer internees and 64 for black Africans. Of the 28,000 Boer men captured as prisoners of war, 25,630 were sent overseas. The vast majority of Boers remaining in the local camps were women and children. Over 26,000 women and children were to perish in these concentration camps."
http://www.geni.com/projects/Anglo-Boere-Oorlog-Boer-War-1899-1902-British-Concentration-Camps/854
The nazis had about three times this figure deported from France and killed in camps during WW2. With a big difference: France had 40 millions inhabitants vs. 1.5 million for SA. I let you calculate the ratios.
Here is a link to the original submission
http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/2iax6z/president_john_f_kennedy_visiting_his_97yearold/
Here is a comment by the original submitter
In my experience, it works very poorly. The only results I found on there from Russia and the Ukraine were from collections that they purchased from JewishGen (which is a free site), and immigration records (which won't do much for you since your family immigrated so recently).
FamilySearch has more records from Russia, but still very little.
JewishGen is the best site for Jewish genealogy. If you can't find your records there, it's likely that you'll have to write directly to the archives in Russian.
Connecting to other families that uploaded their family trees is another great way to expand your tree. I find that many Jewish families use MyHeritage.com and Geni.com.
Her first step should be to search on Yad VaShem. They have a huge database of holocaust victims, much of which comes from pages of testimony which include the name of the person who submitted the information. If she can't do the research herself and you won't help her with it, she can probably call this organization and they may tell her what her options are.
Another thing she can do is to search on one of the two major genealogy sites popular among Jews: geni.com and myheritage.com. These sites require a paid subscription to see the results, but there are friendly folk on /r/genealogy with subscriptions who will do the searches for her if she asks.
Success depends a lot on how common her surname is, and on how much of her family was killed in the holocaust (unfortunately, there is a chance that there are no survivors).
This page from geni.com explains it a little
http://www.geni.com/blog/new-on-geni-dna-tests-for-genealogy-379224.html
They formed a partnership with Family Tree DNA and uploaded over 400 000 records of DNA from different people, and says you can upload a sample of yours. of course, you would have to send them blood, or go to some centre of theirs and do it that way, i'm not entirely sure.
GENI - I got an email for a record match from geni, but I don't have a paid subscription to be able to look at the record. It's a possible obit for somebody in my tree. I'd really appreciate it if anybody could get me an image for this.
In case the link doesn't work, it's for
John E Manley
Birth: 12/27/1870 - Primghar, O'Brien, Iowa, United States
Death: 9/10/1931 - Minnesota, United States.
The info on the record from the email is
Text: ".... , Murray, Harley Field. John Milburn, Manley Liggett and James Malone. Obituary. Thé following obituary was rea...
Date: Sep 23 1931
Publication: Wyoming, Illinois, United States of America
Thanks for your source again, I did indeed trace the line back to Pierre Lefebvre here using mayrand genealogy. It is the same guy I was told about, point A and B now connected!! :) Thanks for your help!!!
An episode of The Office has Andy Bernard pranked into believing he was a relative of Michelle Obama. Turns out his actor, Ed Helms, really is (very distantly) related to her. http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Geni-Michelle-Obama-First-Lady-of-the-USA-is-related-to-Ed-Helms-.png
He had eight kids. http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000008593914494 Jesse Edwards James 1875-1951 Montgomery James 1879-1879 Gould James 1879-1987 Mary Susan Barr 1879-1935 Richard James 1890-1890 Joseph Jesse Chase Martha Chase
Four of which lived long enough to have children of their own.
When I was 12 I plucked my eyebrows for the first time. I ended up looking like Edith Piaf for quite a while. Anyway, welcome to RAoM! I'm sure you'll love it here!
which years?
I'm wondering because my ancestor is Rene Cauchon
"In 1670, he married a "fille du Roi" (a typical colonial practice in Nouvelle-France. Anne Langlois who arrived three months earlier in the colony. She is the daughter of Philippe Langlois and Marie Binet of the Saint-Sulpice parish of Paris. She brought with her a dowry of three hundred pounds and also a present worth about fifty pounds (both from the King.) A contract on Nov. 4 1670 in front of the notary Becquet and a marriage celebrated in the Sainte-Famille parish on November 10 sanctioned their union."
Looked on JewishGen and there's a Messitte living in Maryland. The few hits I see there point to Khorostkiv, Ukraine. I googled that place and this came up: http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000008022129288 (one of the family, Freda, was born there). Is this new?
I also see MESSITTEE on JewishGen.
Here's another hit there: Emanuel MESSITE Born: 1895 Spouse: Beatrice PONEMONE Born: 1892, Brooklyn, Ny Died: 1979
Children: Muriel MESSITE Born: 1923, Brooklyn, Ny. Died: 1983. Jacqueline MESSITE Born: 1924. Died: 14 Jan 2003.
HTH!
I do not think hatred for the religion or it's people is justified, indoctrination is serious business. Think about how much your parents have sacrificed/invested for/in the church, the emotional ties that puts on them to stay. They fight you because the beleive it, you should not lose sight of that. I do not personally even have hatred for the religion as it is made up of good people/members overall I like the values they teach on morality, values, etc especially for teenagers. That said, I really question the people in charge, as I personally have set of in my own discovery of truth, I had never realized how monarchical the religion is, if you look at the last names of the 12 or 70's I have often found ties back to the beginning see Romney Mitt is a direct descendant from Parley P Prat (the only witness to the BoM that did not leave the church) and his Great Uncle Marion was one of the 12.
or haight family started as pioneers tons of mentions in church history this one was a captain of the Utah Militia - follow the line down to a member of the 12. The list goes on and on and on.... someone compiled it, but does not source it here no clue how reputable that site is, but worth checking out their claims.
In a nutshell, it turns out that pretty much every single president have been related in some way, especially with english royalty.
I started using http://www.geni.com, have you tried it ?
I'm interested in how it's different than genoom.com
Ancestry.com is also great but it's a pay site - but it seems like the OP's gd already has all the documents he needs