Records of Alec Knight on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Alec Knight 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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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 Knight 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 Alec Knight and the Knight Genealogy

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

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Knight Genealogy 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.

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Knight 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.

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Some Famous People called Alec Knight

Alec Knight

Alexander Francis "Alec" Knight OBE was Dean of Lincoln in the last years of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939 and educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at Hemel Hempstead he became chaplain at his old school and then director of the Bloxham Project. From here he became Director of Studies at the Aston Training Scheme then priest in charge of Easton and Martyr Worthy and finally (before his elevation to the deanery) Archdeacon of Basingstoke and a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral.

He was appointed OBE in 2006.

Source: Alec Knight, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Knight

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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