Researching Carol Sutton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 19067 people with the Sutton surname? In that year Sutton was ranked number 194 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Carol means "Joyous song" and is of French origin.
Records of Carol Sutton on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Carol Sutton and the Sutton Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sutton 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 Sutton family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 24723 people with the Sutton surname in the UK? Sutton is now ranked number 205 for popularity in the UK. |
Sutton Family Tree Databases
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Sutton Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 115453 people with the Sutton surname in the USA? Sutton is ranked number 119 for popularity in the USA. |
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Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Carol Sutton. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Carol Sutton
Carol Sutton
Carol Sutton (June 29, 1933 – February 19, 1985) was an American journalist. She got her journalism degree from the University of Missouri. In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. She was cited as the example of female achievement in journalism when Time named American Women as the 1975 People of the Year. During her tenure at the paper, it was awarded the 1971 Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence and in 1976 the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for its coverage of school desegregation in Louisville. She is also credited with significantly raising the number of minority reporters on staff.
Carol Sutton knew of her Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame award at the University of Kentucky before her death in 1985, and was very humbled and honored by it. The family holds a Carol Sutton Memorial Scholarship Award in her honor every year, which has grown from our first recipient to 8 or twelve deserving people. She was the first white woman to be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalist's Hall of Fame.
Source: Carol Sutton, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaCarol Sutton (artist)
Carol Lorraine Sutton (born September 3, 1945) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows. Her work, which ranges from complete abstraction to the use of organic and architectural images, relates to the formalist ideas of Clement Greenberg and is noted for the use of color. Some of Sutton paintings have been related to ontology.
Source: Carol Sutton (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sutton
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