Seater Family Tree research resources
Investigate the background of the Seater Family Tree using the resources below. We hope you find these sites useful whilst you are researching your Family History !
Seater records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Seater family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Historical References
"SEATER, SEATTEH. An old Orcadian surname in Walls, probably derived from Setter in Stromness. Gilbert Seater, witness in Kirkwall, 1580, and Thomas Settar on assize in Harray, 1606 (REO., p. 182, 298). The name is recorded in Edinburgh, 1940. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Seater Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Seater 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Seater family tree.
Explore Seater Parish Records at Find My Past.
Investigate the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Seater family name using the FreeBMD database.
Study Genealogy Bank for Seater family records.
Study MyHeritage for Seater family data.
Check out the LDS Database for records of the Seater family.
Research the Seater surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Seater Military records.
Seater Family History Databases
Check out WikiTree for user contributed Seater family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of Seater data can be verified or corrected by other users.
Look at MyTrees for information on the Seater family and people looking to contact living Seater relations.
Search GENi for Seater family records.
Find your Irish Seater relatives on findmypast.ie
Seater Forums
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Miscellaneous Seater Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on the Seater 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 Seater surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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