Smitton Family Tree research resources
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Smitton records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Smitton 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Historical References
"SMITON, SMITTON. Variants of SMEATON, ?.v. John Smiton, musician in Edinburgh 1774), was a cousin of John Smeaton, builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Smitton Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smitton 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 Smitton family tree.
Explore Smitton Parish Records at Find My Past.
Study the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Smitton family name using the FreeBMD database.
Study Genealogy Bank for Smitton family records.
Investigate MyHeritage for Smitton family data.
Look at the LDS Database for records of the Smitton family.
Research the Smitton surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Smitton Military records.
Smitton Family History Databases
Explore WikiTree for user contributed Smitton family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of Smitton data can be verified or corrected by other users.
Look at MyTrees for information on the Smitton family and people looking to contact living Smitton relations.
Check out GENi for Smitton family records.
Find your Irish Smitton relatives on findmypast.ie
Smitton Forums
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Miscellaneous Smitton Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on the Smitton 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 Smitton surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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