Swift Family Tree research resources
Investigate the background of the Swift Genealogy using the resources below. We hope you find these sites useful whilst you are researching your Family History !
 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 9249 people with the Swift surname? In that year Swift was ranked number 443 for popularity in the UK. |
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Swift records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Swift 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Historical References
"SWIFT. A family of this name were burgesses of Edinburgh, and the chartulary of St. Giles contains frequent notices of them in the time of James n (Stodart, n, p. 122). John Swyft was burgess of Edinburgh in 1427 (RMS., n, 92). Swift was the name of a tenth-century landowner in England (Ewen, p. 335). "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Swift Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Swift 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 Swift family tree.
Study Swift Parish Records at Find My Past.
Check out the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Swift family name using the FreeBMD database.
Look at Genealogy Bank for Swift family records.
Look at MyHeritage for Swift family data.
Look at the LDS Database for records of the Swift family.
Research the Swift surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Swift Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 12186 people with the Swift surname in the UK? Swift is now ranked number 467 for popularity in the UK. |
Swift Family History Databases
Search WikiTree for user contributed Swift family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of Swift data can be verified or corrected by other users.
Explore MyTrees for information on the Swift family and people looking to contact living Swift relations.
Explore GENi for Swift family records.
Find your Irish Swift relatives on findmypast.ie
Swift Forums
Research the Swift surname using Genealogy.com forums .
| Did you know that there are currently 27344 people with the Swift surname in the USA? Swift is ranked number 148 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Swift Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on the Swift 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 Swift surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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