Please wait.
loading...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Belarus - Locations Czech Republic-Bohe...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created in 1800 and named for Hugh Mercer, a general in the American Revolution. Adjacent Counties Crawford County Venango County Trumbull County, Ohio Butler County Lawrence County Mahoning County, Ohio Cities & Boroughs
This project is for those from Pennsylvania and /or their respective Counties. Please go to following link for more information.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France, the first son of king Louis XVI. Located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the 1979 nuclear core meltdown. The county con...
Allegheny County is located in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia County. The county seat is Pittsburgh . Allegheny was the first county in Pennsylvania to be given a Native American name. It was named after the Lenape word for the Allegheny River. The m...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in the city or county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also known as "The City of Brotherly Love" and "Philly" Formerly the capital of the United States when Washington D.C. was being built. Official Website Please see Wikipedia for a full history. Adjacent Counties Bucks County Burlington County, New Jersey Camden County...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. (The courts were organized in October 1878.) It is Pennsylvania's last county to be created, and the only one created after the Civil War. It is named for the Lackawa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Luzerne county was founded on September 25, 1786 and named for the Chevalier de la Luzerne, French minister to the United States. Pennsylvania settlers, Indians, and a Connecticut settlement company engaged in a three-way struggle for the Wyoming Valley. The Yankee Pennamite Wars were...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Erie County was established on March 12, 1800. Prior to 1792, the region was claimed by both New York and Pennsylvania and so no county demarcations were made until the federal government intervened. On March 23, 1823, the Erie County Courthouse burned and all county records to that poi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Overview Delaware County lies in the river and bay drainage area named "Delaware" in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of the nearby English colony of Virginia. The land was explored by Henry Hudson in 1609, and over the next several decades it was variously claime...
This project is focused around the genealogy of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). If you have sourced information, please don't hesitate to contribute. Influential and Well-Known Quakers George Fox William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania Robert Barclay, The Quaker Apologist Susan B. Anthony, Civil Rights Leader Joan Baez, Singer and Political Activist John Dalto...
Wikipedia Thomas Jefferson University is a private health sciences university in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. The university consists of six constituent colleges and schools, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Biomedical Sciences, Jefferson College of Health Professions, Jefferson College of Nursing, Jefferson College of Pharmacy, and Jefferson ...
University of Pennsylvania Wikipedia The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn ) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and gra...
Wikipedia =Lafayette College=Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and the citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the school after General Lafayette, who famously toured the ...
Bryn Mawr College, is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United States, and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate stu...
Wikipedia The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under authority of the US federal government, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It ...
October 6, 1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. (Today in History, Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, October 6, 2011, p. B2). Germantown was founded by German settlers, thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families from Krefeld (Germany),[1][2] in 1681. Today the founding day of Germantown on October 6, 1683, ...
Wikipedia The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, and evolved into the Western University of Pennsylvania by alteration of its charter in 1819. After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created from part of Bedford County on April 17, 1795 and named after the county of Somerset in England. George Washington passed through the area of Somerset County on a scouting expedition in late 1753, just before the outbreak of the French and Indian War. The Forbe...
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project (LHP), a group on Facebook. The goal of the Lithuanian Heritage Project is to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members. Those wanting to join this project should be member...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is the capital city of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Dauphin County. Official Website Early Settlement The site along the Susquehanna River in which Harrisburg is located is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC. Known to the Native Americans as "Peixtin,...
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark; few cemeteries have received this distinction.[4]Located in Philadelphia's East Falls section, the 74-acre (300,000 m2) cemetery overlooks the Schuylkill River. Laurel Hill contains more than...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was founded on February 26, 1773 and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is named after Westmorland, an historic county of England. For a complete list of Boroughs, Towns...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was formed in 1752 and was named for Northamptonshire, England. The county is industrially oriented, producing cement, and other industrial products. It was a center of cement production, with the world's then-largest cement producer, Atlas Portland Cement Company, opera...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was formed in 1800 and was named for Joseph Warren, a soldier and statesman of the American Revolution. Adjacent Counties Chautauqua County, NY Cattaraugus County, NY McKean County Elk County Forest County Venango County Crawford County