Records of Arthur Southon on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Arthur Southon 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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Arthur Southon and the Southon Genealogy

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

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Southon Family Tree 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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Southon Forums

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Miscellaneous Southon Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Arthur Southon. 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 Arthur Southon

Arthur Eustace Southon

The Reverend Arthur Eustace Southon (16 February 1887 – 30 December 1964), usually known as A. E. Southon, was an English minister in the Methodist Church, and author. He was best known as the writer of On Eagle's Wings, one of the books used as the basis for the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, one of the most commercially successful films ever released.

Southon was born in London, the son of Walter Southon and Alice Lansdell. In 1915 he became minister at the Methodist Church in Froyle, Hampshire, a post he left in 1919. He married Joyce Mossop around 1916. He is also believed to have worked for a while as a missionary in West Africa and China. He wrote at least 15 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including On Eagle's Wings, which was first published in 1937.

He died in Bristol in 1964 at the age of 77.

Source: Arthur Eustace Southon, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Southon

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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