Researching Alan Read
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 19306 people with the Read surname? In that year Read was ranked number 191 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Alan means "Handsome, cheerful" and is of Gaelic origin.
Records of Alan Read on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alan Read and the Read Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Read 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 Read family tree.
Investigate Parish Records for Alan Read at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 21957 people with the Read surname in the UK? Read is now ranked number 243 for popularity in the UK. |
Read Genealogy Databases
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Read Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 18229 people with the Read surname in the USA? Read is ranked number 151 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Read Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Alan Read. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Alan Read
Alan Read (activist)
Alan John Read (11 January 1945 – 5 November 1996) was born in Warrington, England and emigrated to Australia. He studied accounting and worked at various businesses across Sydney including Abbotsleigh boarding school.
Alan moved to Greystanes in 1974 and was very active in the community. He was President of the Greystanes Progress Association and initiated community action groups including the Canal Reserve Action Group (CRAG) and the Holroyd Association Against Airport (HAAAN).
CRAG was formed in 1994 to ensure the land around the Lower Prospect water canal was retained as open space following decommissioning of the canal. In 2003 a cycleway was completed along the length of the reserve and it was opened for use by the community. The Lower Prospect Canal Reserve was gazetted as Crown Land in 2004 and the reserve handed to Holroyd City Council as the Trustee.
Alan was a keen birdwatcher and for several years he compiled the Australia Day National Garden Bird Count for the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia (now known as the Australian Wildlife Society).
Source: Alan Read (activist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlan Read (writer)
Alan Read (born 21 September 1956) is a writer and professor of theatre at King's College London. Read is known as a theatre theorist and cultural activist, with scholarly interests in ethics and the everyday, performed communities, event architecture, and subjectivities of capitalism. Read's work stands as a critique of modernist theatrical orthodoxy critically contesting Peter Brook's idealism of the ‘empty space' awaiting its theatre, a tabula rasa for professionals to enter and exit at will. Read counter intuitively perceives theatre to have been superseded in that populated place by the quotidian performances of everyday life, those that remain for good and ill. Read took up this provocative critique on the National Theatre stage in London in 1994 in public dialogue with Brook's space-designer Jean-Guy Lecat, and joins others in his scepticism of the colonial fantasy of theatre's ‘empty space', including most assertively Rustom Bharucha in Theatre & The World (1993).
Source: Alan Read (writer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Read
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