Researching Bennie Smith
Dig into the past of Bennie Smith using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 422845 people with the Smith surname? In that year Smith was ranked number 1 for popularity in the UK.
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Records of Bennie Smith on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Bennie Smith 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 Bennie Smith 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 Bennie Smith and the Smith Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Bennie Smith 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 Bennie Smith family tree.
Look at the huge Ancestry records Database for Births, Marriages and Deaths of Bennie Smith.
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Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Bennie Smith using the FreeBMD database.
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Study World Vital Records for information on Bennie Smith.
Did you know that there are currently 514897 people with the Smith surname in the UK? Smith is now ranked number 1 for popularity in the UK.
Smith 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.
Explore the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Bennie Smith.
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Check out One Great Family for Smith records submitted by people who are already researching the Smith Family Tree.
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Smith 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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Did you know that there are currently 3056476 people with the Smith surname in the USA? Smith is ranked number 1 for popularity in the USA.
Miscellaneous Smith Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Bennie Smith. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Look at Rootsweb resources for Smith records.
Research Bennie Smith using the Genealogy Today database .
View the distribution of the Smith surname in Britain using the
public profiler Names database. The public profiler Names database contains distributions for
the Smith surname in both 1881 and 1998. It also contains data on the ethnicity breakdown of the Smith surname.
Other names that sound a bit like Smith
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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