The Research Area in the Mediterranean Basin & Europe
This research is based on official documents for certain areas like Leghorn, Smyrna, Aleppo, Genoa, Florence, Lyons, Marseilles…
Other sources include books, websites, other researchers and also information coming from paid subscriptions with Scotlandspeople, Ancestry.com, The National Archives, etc…
Main cities researched: (click for detailed sources)
IT – Livorno (Leghorn), Genoa, Naples, Milan, Turin, Florence, Pisa, Venice…
UK – London, Edinburgh, Dublin…
DE – Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen, Munchen, Koln, Aachen, Stolberg, Duren, Landau…
FR – Lyons, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nimes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Le Havre, Die, Grenoble…
NL – Amsterdam, S’Gravenhage (Den Haag), Rotterdam, Maastricht…
BE – Brussels, Antwerpen…
CH – Genève, Neuchatel, Lausanne, Zürich, Basel…
NO – Bergen, Christiania, Eid…
TR – Smyrna, Istanbul, Ankara (Angora)…
SYR – Aleppo, Damascus, St. Jean d’Acre, Syra, Tripoli…
USA – Philadelphia, Boston, New York…
and: Algiers, Cairo, Gibraltar, Malta, Chios (Greece), Mexico, Antilles, India, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Brasil…
Work is in progress for adding more pages and sources.
INTERNET DATABASES (waiting to be categorized in a specific page)
Huguenot Refugees Database – Base de données du réfuge huguenot (in french language)
FiBiS – Families in British India Society (620,000 people from 1600 to 1947)
FamilySearch – by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The National Archives [TNA] (UK) and their DocumentsOnline
The National Archives of Ireland
The National Archives of Scotland [NAS] and their ScotlandsPeople
The National Archives [NARA] (US)
Société Genevoise de Généalogie [SGG] – Geneva Genealogy Society and their Geneva’s burial index
Archives de l’Etat de Genève [AEG] and their Online Documents
The British Newspapers 1800-1900 by The British Library
Bibliothèque Nationale de France [BNF] and their Gallica digitization program
Internet Archive Text Archive and Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Nationaal Archief (Netherlands) and their Dutch East India Co. personnel 1700-1794
TANAp – Dutch East India Company (VOC) Documents 1602-1795
Archives Nationales (France)
Deutsche Biographie (Bayerische StaatsBibliothek)
Base Iconographique – Portraits (BPU Neuchatel)
British History Online – Browse by Source
Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse [DHS]
IGI Batch Numbers – British Isles and North America (useful for IGI search on FamilySearch website)
Baptismal Registers of Florence 1450-1900 (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Dictionnaire des horlogers célèbres (WorldTempus)
The Protestant Cemetery of Florence called the English Cemetery
London Burial Grounds (description of old London cemeteries – No Name Index)
thePeerage – A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
Pepys’ Diary – Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
18th century currency converter
LINKS TO OTHER RESEARCHERS’ WEB PAGES
Levantine Heritage: A wonderful website expressing the full sense of the research in the Mediterranean
Colin Jermy’s website about the JERMY family
Genealogies of families originating in the Hellenes, Aegean and Chios by Christopher A. Long
by Roland Gennerat
Stirnet Project by Peter Barns-Graham
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