Researching Al Laney
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 234 people with the Laney surname? In that year Laney was ranked number 3345 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Al means "Form of ALBERT - noble, bright" and is of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Records of Al Laney on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Al Laney and the Laney Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 309 people with the Laney surname in the UK? Laney is now ranked number 3751 for popularity in the UK. |
Laney Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Al Laney
Al Laney
Albert 'Al' Gillis Laney (January 11, 1896 – January 31, 1988) was an American sportswriter who specialized in tennis and golf but also covered baseball, boxing and American football.
Laney was born on January 11, 1896 in Pensacola, Florida, the son of an attorney and one of six children. He served as a lieutenant in World War I and saw action at The Battle of the Argonne Forest. After World War I Laney became a correspondent at the New York Evening Mail. In 1924 he went to Europe and joined the Paris Herald, as the Paris edition of the New York Herald was known. During his period in Europe he also started working for the New York Herald Tribune. In the summer months he would travel between Paris and England to cover the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Davis Cup and the British golf tournaments. In the mid-1930s he returned to the United States to join the Tribune's sports staff. He retired when the Tribune ceased publication in 1966.
In 1947 Laney published an account of the Paris Herald newspaper titled Paris Herald: The Incredible Newspaper and in 1968 he published Covering the Court; a 50-Year Love Affair With the Game of Tennis, a memoir on his experience as a tennis correspondent from World War I through to the start of the Open era.
Laney was regarded as one of the leading American tennis journalists of the first half of the 20th century together with Allison Danzig of The New York Times. In 1979, Laney was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, for his contributions to tennis. He received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Source: Al Laney, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Laney
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