Researching Benjamin Tefft
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The name Benjamin means "Son of the right hand" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Benjamin Tefft on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Benjamin Tefft and the Tefft Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Tefft 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 Tefft family tree.
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Tefft Family Tree Databases
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Tefft Forums
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Miscellaneous Tefft Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Benjamin Tefft. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Benjamin Tefft
Benjamin Franklin Tefft
Benjamin Franklin Tefft (1813–1885) was an American Methodist minister, author, newspaper editor, and diplomat. As the American Consul in Stockholm, Sweden during the US Civil War, he encouraged and facilitated Swedish emigration to the United States, particularly his native state of Maine. This eventually resulted, for example, in the founding of the northern Maine immigrant community of New Sweden and its satellite Stockholm, Maine.
Tefft was born in Floyd, New York and attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, graduating in 1835. In 1839-41, and again in 1858-61, he served as a Methodist pastor in Bangor, Maine, and later briefly in Portland. In between Tefft became a professor of Greek and Latin at DePauw University in Indiana, and then president of Genesee College in New York, which later became Syracuse University. The town of Tefft, Indiana was named for him.
Source: Benjamin Franklin Tefft, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Tefft
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