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

Hi  My ancestors were silk weavers in Spitlefields and Mile End Old Town with the name of La'Gache Agace Agase Agass. I am interested in were they originated from. thank you

Answer 2

I'd like to join the project! I have the following Huguenot surnames in my lineage, which I continue to research; Bellinger, Boucher, de Bourdeaux, Hardin, Pepin, Poitevin, Postell/Postell.

Answer 3

Hi, I'd like to join this project, I am interested in the Huguenot families of glass makers mainly from Lorraine, who found refuge in England and Ireland, 1590 and later.

Surnames include de Hennezel (Henzey), de Thisac (Tyzack) - anglicised forms in brackets.

Answer 4

I'm a descendant of the Deland family, who came to Massachusetts in 1660's or 1670's. I'd like to join.

Answer 5

I am researching my Groff-Gabier ancestry, who had connections to Alsace-Lorraine. I would love to be a member of the Project. 

Answer 6

Through WikiTree I have discovered Henri Marchand and Thomas LaMare who have been identified as Huguenots.  The Marchand became Mershon, and LaMare became Lamar.

Answer 7

Hi - I'd like to be involved in this project. My ancestors include French Huguenots on several lines: Chastain, Sallee, Bondurant, Faure, Soblet, Maxey.

Answer 8

I have Huguenot ancestors named Maupin, Hersent, and Via.  They came to Virginia by way of Amsterdam.  I would like to join this project, and learn more!

Bart

Answer 9

I would love to join the project.  The question of whether or not my family was descended from French Huguenot is one I would like to know more about.  Thanks!

John

Answer 10

HI,

I would like to get involved in the project, please.

Many thanks,

Marlene

Answer 11

I'm not sure what I could do to help.  I have put my genealogy back to Pierre Chastain in the tree.  What else would I do for this project?

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Hello Susanne

Thank you for your comment and for helping fill in your family tree back to your Huguenot ancestor, Dr. Pierre Chastain.

Have you added the appropriate Huguenot identity Stickers to your family members, including all children - even not direct ancestors, that descend from him ?  This is our main Project goal at the moment: to identify all Huguenot emigrants, their family and descendants, now on WikiTree.   Please go to: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Huguenot_Migration#Templates

and see which Sticker applies to which ancestor, down to you, of course!! 

I also notice that there are some female ancestors with French names in your Tree but they have no parents on WikiTree - perhaps you could also see what Sources you can find for them and if you find their lineage, do add it to our One World Tree. 

Answer 12

I'd like to join your project.  Vincent Rongnion -3 is my 7th great grandfather.  Thank you.  

Gordon "Bud" Warder-49

Answer 13

Please add me to this exciting project

Answer 14

I am descended from Huguenot Gabriel Maupin.  Actually two of my great great grandparents are Maupins!  Please add me to the project.

Answer 15

Yes, I am interested. DELO is a Huguenot name and there are still Delos in Brittany and Normandy. Brittany Delos were on record as of 1400. Apparently Delos went to both Germany and England (Kent). There are still Delo families in Kent and a German Delo family migrated to Canada, then Michigan in the mid-1800s from Mecklenburg.

Answer 16

This appears to be the correct direction. In my research so far, it appears that one of my German ancestors who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1754, Johann Jacob Aurand, my fourth great grandfather who married Elizabeth Christina Heinz/Hines, was from the the family that were originally from France before emigrating to Prussia due persecution as Huguenots.

Answer 17

I am currently working on my family profiles that were part of the last Huguenot Emmigration to America and would very much like to join this project If I may. My ancestors were of the de Rochemaure line who changed ther name to Roquemore when they fled prosecution 

Answer 18

My Menuret ancestors came from Montelimar France during the revocation of the Edict of Nanes. They settled in what is now Northern Ireland. Susan Rice Campbell

Answer 19

Hi Chet, My ID is Dellinger-729

I really am interested in finding out more about this project. Jane Chilton Dellinger Davis

Answer 20

I would like to join this project, I have many Huguenot ancestors like the Du Pre's and Du Plessis. Most of them arrived in the Cape in1688