Resources for researching the Beck Family Tree
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 7003 people with the Beck surname? In that year Beck was ranked number 584 for popularity in the UK. |
Beck records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Beck family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Origins and History
New to Family History? Check out our Getting Started page. Check out House Of Names to investigate the origins of the Beck surname or get a copy of the Beck family Crest (a great gift idea!).
"BECK. Of local origin from some small place of the name probably in Dumfriesshire. There is a Beckfoot (a burn mouth) and Beckton in Dumfriesshire. Thomas del Beck was juror on an inquisition in Lochmaben in 1347 (Bain, m, 1499), and Thomas de Bek was a tenant of the earl of Douglas in Glemvaldy in the barony of Prestoune, 1376 (RHM., i, p. bd). John Beck in Balmaclaill (Galloway) found caution for his indemnity in 1627 (RFC., 2. ser. n, p. 69), and John Beck, cordiner at Bridgend of Dumfries in 1683 and six more of the name are recorded in the Dumfries Register of Testaments, 1624-1800. The name is also found in the Commlssariot Record of Kirkcudbright in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and in the Edinburgh Marriage Records. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Beck Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Beck Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Beck family tree.
Study Beck Parish Records at Find My Past.
Explore the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of the Beck family using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records of the Beck family.
Research the Beck surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Beck Military records.
Beck Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 112415 people with the Beck surname in the USA? Beck is ranked number 120 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Beck Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on the Beck family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Beck surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
Some Famous People with the surname of Beck
| Kimberly Beck |  | Kimberly Beck (born January 9, 1956; Glendale, California) is an American actress, with over sixty television and film roles to her credit. |
| Jeff Beck | | Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. |
| Beck Beck | | Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. |
| Ludwig Beck | | Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 ? 21 July 1944) was a German general and Chief of the General Staff of High Command of the Army ("Oberkommando des Heeres") during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. |
| Ulrich Beck | | Dr. |
| Adam Beck | | Sir Adam Beck (June 20, 1857 ? August 15, 1925) was a politician and hydro-electricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. |
| Glenn Beck | | Glenn Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American radio host and television host, author, conservative political commentator, and entrepreneur. |
| Harry Beck | | Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 ? 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. |
| Volker Beck | | Volker Beck (born 12 December, 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German politician. |
| Arthello Beck | | Arthello Beck Jr. |
| Michael Beck | | John Michael Beck Taylor (born February 4, 1949), commonly known as Michael Beck, is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Swan in the 1979 film, "The Warriors". |
| James Beck | | Stanley James Beck (21 February 1929 ? 6 August 1973) was an English actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom "Dad's Army" which ran from 1968 to 1977. |
| Rod Beck | | Rodney Roy Beck (August 3 1968 ? June 23 2007) nicknamed "Shooter", was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (-), Chicago Cubs (-), Boston Red Sox (1999-) and San Diego Padres (-). |
| Kurt Beck | | Kurt Beck (born February 5, 1949) is a German politician (SPD), serving as the Minister President of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) since 1994 and as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. |
| David Beck | | David Beck (or Beek) (the goose) (May 25 1621, Delft ? Dec 20 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter. |
| Jakob Sigismund Beck | | Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761?1840), German philosopher, was born at Danzig (Gda?sk) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia in 1761. |
| George Andrew Beck | | George Andrew Beck (28 May 1904 ? 13 September 1978) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool from 29 January 1964 to 7 February 1976. |
| Timothy Beck | | Timothy Beck (born February 1, 1977 in Assen, Drenthe) is a Dutch sprinter. |
| Robert J. Beck | | Robert J. |
| Karol Beck | | Karol Beck (born April 3, 1982 in Zvolen) is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. |
| Robin Beck | | Robin Beck (born November 7, 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is an American female singer. |
| Jennifer Beck | | Jennifer Beck (born January 3, 1967) is an Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since January 8, 2008, where she represents the 12th legislative district serving portions of Monmouth and Mercer Counties. |
| Dave Beck | | Dave Beck (June 16, 1894 ? December 26, 1993) was an American labor leader, and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957. |
| John Beck | | John Beck (born January 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American actor. |
| John Beck | | John Dalton Beck (born August 21, 1981 in) is an American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. |
| Andreas Beck | | Andreas Beck (born 13 March 1987 in Kemerovo) is a German football defender who plays for 1899 Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga. |
| Martina Beck | | Martina "Molly" Beck (born Martina Glagow, September 21, 1979, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany), is a German biathlete. |
| Hans Beck | | Hans Beck (6 May 1929 ? 30 January 2009) was the German inventor of the toy Playmobil. |
| Noelle Beck | | Noelle Beck (born December 14, 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, best known for her role as Trisha Alden on the ABC daytime soap opera "Loving". |
| James B. Beck | | James Burnie Beck (February 13 1822 ? May 3 1890) was a United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky. |
| Guido Beck | | Guido Beck (August 29, 1903 ? October 21, 1988) was a physicist born in what was then the town of Reichenberg in Austria-Hungary, and is now Liberec in the Czech Republic. |
| Bruce Beck | | Bruce Beck is the weekday Sports anchor at WNBC-TV. |
| Byron Beck | | A. |
| Barry Beck | | Barry Beck (born June 3, 1957 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who was drafted second overall in both the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft and the 1977 WHA Amateur Draft from the New Westminster Bruins. |
| Fred Beck | | Frederick Thomas Beck (November 17, 1886 in Havana, Illinois-March 12, 1962 in Havana, Illinois) was a baseball player. |
| Gary Beck | | Gary Beck (January 21, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. |
| Justin Beck | | Justin Beck is the guitarist and musical writer for Long Island, New York band Glassjaw. |
| Hans Beck | | Hans Beck (25 April 1911 ? 10 April 1996) was a Norwegian ski jumper who won a silver medal in the large hill individual event at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. |
| Jenny Beck | | Jennifer "Jenny" Beck (born August 3, 1974;) is an American actress best known for playing a young Elizabeth on ' and '. |
| Boom-Boom Beck | | Walter William "Boom-Boom" Beck (October 16, 1904 ? May 7, 1987) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. |
| John Beck | | John Alexander Beck (born 25 May 1954) is an English professional footballer and manager. |
| Gordon Beck | | Gordon James Beck (born 16 September 1936 in Brixton, London) is a largely self-taught jazz pianist who left a career in engineering for jazz. |
| Jordan Beck | | Jordan David Beck (born April 18, 1983 in Mount Hermon, California) is currently a free agent for the NFL. |
| Claude Beck | | Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894 ? 1971) was a pioneer American cardiac surgeon, famous for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques, and performing the first defibrillation in 1947. |
| Perry Van der Beck | | Perry Van der Beck (born November 5, 1959 in East St. |
| Stuart Beck | | Stuart Beck is the nation of Palau's ambassador to the United Nations. |
| Michael Beck | | Michael "Michi" Beck (born 11 December 1967 in Stuttgart Germany), also known by his pseudonym as the disc jockey Dee Jot Hausmarke is a member of the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier where he acts as DJ and MC. |
| Billy Beck | | Billy Beck is a keyboardist, pianist, and songwriter for the Original and New Ohio Players, as well as Zapp and Roger. |
| Julie B. Beck | | Julie Bangerter Beck (born 29 September 1954) has been the general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 31 March 2007. |
| Karen Olsen Beck | | Karen Olsen Beck (Karen Olsen de Figueres), First Lady of Costa Rica during the governments of Jose Figueres Ferrer 1954-1958 and 1970-1974, Legislative Assemblywoman and Ambassador of Costa RicaBiography. |
| Erasmus W. Beck | | Erasmus Williams Beck (October 21, 1833 ? July 22, 1898) was a U. |
| Ernie Beck | | Ernest Joseph Beck (born December 11, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American professional basketball player. |
| Kathryn Beck | | Kathryn Beck (born 1 March 1986) is an Australian actress, best known for playing Lily Nelson on the soap opera "Home and Away". |
| James Beck | | James H. |
| Paul W. Beck | | Paul Ward Beck (1 December 1876 ? 4 April 1922) was an officer in the United States Army, an aviation pioneer, and one of the first military pilots. |
| Erve Beck | | Ervin Thomas Beck (19 July 1878 ? 23 December 1916) was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played for 3 seasons. |
| Corey Beck | | Corey Laveon Beck (born May 27, 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a retired American basketball player. |
| Harry Beck | | Henry Alfred "Harry" Beck, also known as Harold Beck, (February 21, 1901 in Walsall Wood, England ? 1979) was an English footballer. |
| Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck | | Raymond Fernandez and his common-law wife Martha Beck became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. |
| W. Raymond Beck | | W. |
| Ken Beck | | Ken Beck (born 4 August 1940) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. |
| Ian Beck | | Ian Archibald Beck (born 1947 in Brighton) is an English children's illustrator and author. |
| Baron Max Wladimir von Beck | | Baron Max Wladimir von Beck (6 September 1854, Vienna ? 20 January 1943, Vienna) was an Austrian and statesman. |
| Adolf Beck | | Adolf Beck (1 January 1863, Cracow ? 1942, Lvov) was Austrian physician of Polish descent and professor of physiology at the University of Lemberg. |
| Bob Beck | | Robert E. |
| Robert Nason Beck | | Robert Nason Beck (26 March 1928 in San Angelo, Texas ? 6 August 2008 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American scientist and a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine. |
| Anton August Beck | | Anton August Beck (27 August 1713, Braunschweig - 17 March 1787, Braunschweig) was a German engraver. |
| Johann Georg Beck | | Johann Georg Beck (24 April 1676, Augsburg - 7 August 1722, Braunschweig) was a German engraver. |
| Jean de Beck | | Jean de Beck (1588 ? 22 August 1648) was the Governor and Captain-General of the Duchy of Luxembourg and of the County of Chiny. |
| Romel Beck | | Romel Roberto Beck Castro (born May 29, 1982 in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico) is a Mexican professional basketball player who also plays for the Mexico national basketball team. |
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