Researching Adrian Piper
Delve into the history of Adrian Piper using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5918 people with the Piper surname? In that year Piper was ranked number 720 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Adrian means "Dark one" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Adrian Piper on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Adrian Piper in your 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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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Piper ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Adrian Piper and the Piper Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Piper 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 Piper family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Adrian Piper at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Adrian Piper using the FreeBMD database.
Study Genealogy Bank for Adrian Piper records.
Check out MyHeritage for Adrian Piper information.
Study the LDS Database for records about Adrian Piper.
Research the Piper surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Piper Military records.
![]() | Did you know that there are currently 7233 people with the Piper surname in the UK? Piper is now ranked number 823 for popularity in the UK. |
Piper Family History Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Adrian Piper.
Study MyTrees for information on the Piper family and people looking to contact living Piper relations.
Study One Great Family for Piper records submitted by people who are already researching the Piper Family Tree.
Find Adrian Piper from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Piper Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
Research the Piper surname using Genealogy.com forums .
![]() | Did you know that there are currently 27344 people with the Piper surname in the USA? Piper is ranked number 148 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Piper Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Adrian Piper. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Adrian Piper
Adrian Piper
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial passing, and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media to provoke self-analysis. She uses reflection on her own career as an example. Piper has been awarded various fellowships and medals and has been described as having "profoundly influenced the language and form of Conceptual art". In 2002, she founded the Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA) in Berlin, Germany, the focus of a foundation that was established in 2009.
Source: Adrian Piper, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Piper
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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