Join the Huguenot Migration Project [closed]

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Hello! Are you interested in helping with the Huguenot Migration Project?  If so, please answer this post and ask to join the project.

Additionally:

1. Add huguenot to your followed tags.
2.  Add the category [[Category:Huguenot_Migration_Project]] including the double brackets, to your own profile, above your biography section

The WikiTree Huguenot Migration Project defines "Huguenot” as French-speaking Protestant Christians (whatever branch or denomination) that left their homeland (France or borderlands such as Provence, Navarre, Franche Comté or the Spanish Netherlands - today's Belgium) due to religious persecution or intolerance.  Occitan-speaking or Provencal-speaking French Protestants and French-speaking families from today’s Belgium (Walloons, Liegeois) are included.  Note that in this Project we only include the actual Emigrants and their emigrating families, not their Descendants.  We do include "Double Hops," where a family fled France or a borderland for Germany, the Netherlands  or England and then they or their children moved on to America or South Africa or elsewhere, usually beyond Europe. 

This Project is limited in time & space: only Protestant Christians who left their French or borderland home due to religious intolerance between about 1540 and 1790 (when France declared all religions legal) and whose proper language or culture was French (Walloons / Occitans / Provençals included) are part of this Project.  

• Non-French-culture Protestants or descendants beyond “Double Hop” children are not placed in this Project, even though they continued to self-identify as Huguenots.  There will be a “Huguenot Descendant Sticker” to identify them, down to the Present.  A “Huguenot Family Sticker” will identify foreign-born wives, husbands or grand-children of Huguenot emigrants.  A “Huguenot Non-Emigrant Sticker” will identify those French-speaking Protestants who remained in France or a borderland. 

If you are interested in this world-wide diaspora between 1540-1790, please join this Project:  introduce yourself and tell us your Huguenot surnames of interest.

Bienvenue!  / Welcome!

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I just sent you a private message on your wiki page. We are Huguenot Cousins!

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Excited to find another cousin. Thank you for the help and the private message.

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So I think You are related to my mom, therefore  I think you might be interested in joining the Huguenot Project on GEDmatch. Moms parents were famous- Earl A. Weaver-Pless and Wilma Davilla Snell from Winchester, Franklun County, Tenn . They were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall if Fame. Mom grandpa was John Ten Shillings Bell Shasteen Shasteen. I live in Frisco, Texas. Terri G Solomon / McGhee is my name. I am part of a 50 person Shasteen project on Gedmatch. I wondered if you might be interested in joining the reserach group? If so, please follow the links below. Thanks, [email address removed] Terri_McGhee60. On Ancestry Shasteen project It would be so great if you could join the Shasteen/ Chasteen/ Chastain project. Here is how:

Just FOLLOW this link for instructions to download Your raw DNA file from ANCESTRY or Another DNA Testing Site : https://dna-explained.com/2018/08/15/ancestry-step-by-step-guide-how-to-upload-download-dna-files/

Then create a GEDmatch account at: https://www.gedmatch.com/login1.php

After you have the GEDmatch kit number and uploaded the raw DNA file....You can follow these instructions: Log into your GEDmatch account at https://www.gedmatch.com/login1.php On the right side of the homepage, under DNA Applications, click on Ancestor Projects. Follow instructions within. Terri Solomon / McGhee Let me know if you need help.

INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN NEW FACEBOOK GROUP

There is also a new Facebook group called Chastain DNA Project. This group will be a forum to discuss our matches and findings. We are a GEDmatch private project FB group and follow the privacy rules of GEDmatch. We do not repost (copy & paste) any information about any member in this FB group or GEDmatch to another FB group or website. To join the Chastain DNA Project Facebook group you must have a GEDmatch kit number, be a member of the Chastain DNA Project, and answer the questions in the request to join. You will find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/718611882070900 . We hope to see you there!

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Hello, Terri,  I will check it out. Thanks so much for the information. I will let you know what I find. Carol

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I'm trying to locate my direct ancestors who remained in France. However, their son did immigrated to de Caep de Hoede in 1688

Daniel Rousseau b circa 1640 - 1731 - Suèvres, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France

married: Marie Retif b circa 1644 - Orleans, Centre, France

Any suggestions?

Regards

Tina

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You very welcome.

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I descend from Hester du Bois & Glaude (Claude) de la Maistre who emigrated from the Netherlands to Brooklyn in 1652.

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Hello John

Thank you for your comment.  This thread is about joining the Huguenot Migration Project here on WikiTree.  I see you are a Guest  Member so please know that we only accept full WikiTree members who have signed our "Honor Code" as Project members.  When you take that step, please return here and use ANSWER to request to join and we will be happy to add you to our badged membership list.  

Best wishes

Chet Snow, Huguenot Migration Project Leader

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Sorry...Where's the honor pledge?

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Hi John

The Honor Code is a pledge all our Full Members sign when they join WikiTree.  Here is a URL that helps explain it:

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code

Also you should see

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Membership

It explains the different levels of Membership - signing the Honor Code online automatically upgrades you to full or "Wiki Genealogist" membership.  At that time you can use this G2G thread - ANSWER not a Comment - and ask to join the Huguenot Migration Project.

Good luck and Happy Ancestor Hunting!

Chet Snow, Leader Huguenot Migration Project

Answer 1

I am interested in joining the Huguenot Project.  My ancestor Joseph Boner emigrated to America and served in the American Revolutionary War.  Shortly after arriving in America, his name was Anglicized to Bouney, Boney, Bony or Bonee.

Answer 2

Hi, I am descended from Philippe De La Noye from Leiden on the Speedwell and the Fortune 1621 and am living in Southampton, from where he set off. I really look forward to learning and sharing more about his family and the other Huguenots!

Answer 3

I have contributed nearly 3000 entries and established https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Aubigne-2 who was a French Huguenot and my ancestor.  I would like to have all of my lineage have the sticker and myself as well.  Thank you.

Answer 4

My 9th GGF [[Rongnion-3|Vincent Rongnion]] emigrated around 1666 from France to New Jersey.  I assume avoiding persecution was his motive.

Answer 5

My Huguenot ancestor is Louis Payzant (Paisant) from Caen, Normandie, who left France because of religious persecution, first settling at St Hellier, Jersey, and then to Nova Scotia.

Answer 6

My ancestors were Huguenot immigrants to South Africa. Jordaan [Jordaan-1360] was my mother's birth surname.

Answer 7

I would like to join this project because I would like to confirm my children's ancestors' story. The information handed down through my late father in-law was that his family fled France to escape being killed. I assumed it was during the French revolution but my research and that of others who contributed during the last 3 decades have traced it back to much earlier.

.My note on the file from pre 2000 says:

"John Le Neve his wife and one child  arrived in Rye Sussex from Dieppe in France on 10 Sep 1572 possibly refugees from the St Bartholomew's massacre only 17 days earlier.  Information received from Moira Marchington 17 Swale Ave Queensborough, Kent suggest that John Le Neve was a lace-maker. (Moira is a Neve descendant on her father's mother's side of her family.) Information from Ancestry file on the www.hugenot Confirmed by letter from Caroline Hickey of the London Society 28/1/1981"

Answer 8

Hi, please add me to the project. Names are – Crepin, Laurent, Gueffroy, Dubois, Baudouin, Burette, Overlac and Cuprine. Thanks, Rob.

Answer 9

I would love to join since I just became aware that I have Huguenots in my ancestors Benoit Brasseur and Robert Brasseur. The name has (d)evolved to Beshears in my family.

Answer 10

Please add me to your list.  I have French Huguenots  by the names of LeVillain and Dupuy who arrived in Virginia in the 1600's.  I also have some written information to add pertaining to these families copied from the Woodson Family Genealogy.

Answer 11

Yes, please. I’d love to join. Many of my Charleston, SC, ancestors were proud Huguenots and helped build the community there. They were from England via the Netherlands via St. Christopher (St. Kitts) to Charlestown in the Carolinas.

Answer 12

One of my ancestors, a Charnaud, fled France in the late 1600's/early 1700's and settled in Switzerland.

Answer 13

My wife's lineage has an interesting Huguenot, with one of the most captivating backstories I have come across; Stephen Cassan (1662-1734).  I would love to join the project.

Answer 14

I have a few French Huguenots in my family tree and I would love to join. I have a great deal of interest in the history of the Huguenots.

Answer 15

Here are two director ancestors of mine, though I haven't gotten around to adding them to my family tree here on Wikitree (but I have already done so on the myheritage website): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bilbeau-1

And his daughter (also a direct ancestor of mine - both were born in France): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dutoit-20

Their name was originally spelled "Bilbeau" though it was changed "Bilbo" at some point.

I also have some Swiss ancestry from the French region of Switzerland.

I don't know if this satisfies the requirements to join, but I hope so.

Answer 16

I would like to join this project to research members of my family such as Paulus Maree. A descendant on his mother's side of many Huguenots. He is my 8th Great-Grandfather.

Answer 17

Hi,

I would like to join the project concerning the ancestors of Paulus Maree, my 8th Great-Grandfather.

Answer 18

I descend from Guillaume Foquet, known in colonial Virginia as Gil or William Fuqua. I would like to join your project. His family went first to England and he came to Virginia as a young man.

Answer 19

Hello, I'm interested in joining the Huguenot Project.  I have several distant relatives from France, some who were Huguenots.  My closest one is my 4th great grandmother.  http://[[Marmoy-1|Anne (Marmoy) Bailey (1738-1828)]]  She was christened at Threadneedle Street, French Huguenot, London, England, as well as her parents. http://[[Marmoy-2|Jean Maximiliam Marmoy (bef.1704-1792)]] and  http://[[De_La_Mare-36|Elizabeth (De La Mare) Marmoy (1706-abt.1780)]]. They remained in England, but Anne emigrated to Massachusetts, where she met and married her husband John Bailey. Not sure how she got to America.  I'm guessing as an indentured servient. 

Answer 20

I should like to join the project, if it is still running. My Huguenot emigrant ancestors were Job Jacob Marmois/Marmoy and his wife, Elizabeth Rondeau, who fled to London's Spitalfields in March 1681.