Records of Bessel Kok on Ancestry

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

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

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Kok Family Tree Databases

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Kok Forums

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Miscellaneous Kok Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Bessel Kok. 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 Bessel Kok

Bessel Kok

Bessel Kok (born 13 December 1941 in Hilversum) is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications company SWIFT and responsible for SWIFT's sponsorship of several major International chess events.

Kok was the Chairman of World Chess Grandmaster Association from 1985 until 1991, and helped to establish the 2002 Prague Agreement concerning the World Chess Championship.

Kok is also active in the arts. He was the producer of the film The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton about British businessman Nicholas Winton who rescued children from the Nazis. The film won an Emmy Award in 2002.

Kok ran a campaign for presidency of the World Chess Federation against the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in 2006. The election was held in June, 2006 in Torino, Italy during the World Chess Olympiad and Kok lost 54–96 to Ilyumzhinov.

Bessel Kok was an Executive Chairman of the pro cycling team Omega Pharma Quick-Step. He is also Chairman of the related Bakala Academy, a center for sport development.

Kok produced the film The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy.

In 2004 he organized the Cow Parade art exhibition in Prague.

Source: Bessel Kok, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Kok

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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