Records of Albert Smethurst on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Albert Smethurst in your 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Albert Smethurst and the Smethurst Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smethurst 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 Smethurst family tree.

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Smethurst Genealogy Databases

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Smethurst Forums

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Miscellaneous Smethurst Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Albert Smethurst. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Albert Smethurst

Albert Smethurst

Albert Harry Smethurst (19 August 1868 – 11 November 1935) was a British trade unionist. Born in Oldham, Smethurst completed an apprenticeship as an engineer and became active in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), soon becoming its Oldham district secretary. He was also elected as secretary of the Oldham Trades Council. In 1913, Smethurst was elected as assistant general secretary of the ASE. In 1920, the ASE merged with several other unions to become the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and he became its general secretary in 1921, serving until his retirement in 1933. Source: Albert Smethurst, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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