Researching Cecil Chaudhry
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The name Cecil means "Blind" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Cecil Chaudhry on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Cecil Chaudhry 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 Cecil Chaudhry and the Chaudhry Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chaudhry 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 Chaudhry family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Cecil Chaudhry at Find My Past.
Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Cecil Chaudhry using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records about Cecil Chaudhry.
Research the Chaudhry surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Chaudhry Military records.
Chaudhry Genealogy Databases
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Chaudhry 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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Miscellaneous Chaudhry Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Cecil Chaudhry. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Cecil Chaudhry
Cecil Chaudhry
Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry (Urdu:سیسل چودھری) (27 August 1941 – 13 April 2012) was a Pakistani academic, human rights activist, and a veteran fighter pilot. As a flight lieutenant, he fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and as a squadron leader in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. During the 1965 war, Chaudhry and three other pilots, under the leadership of Wing Commander Anwar Shamim, attacked the Amritsar Radar Station in a difficult operation. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) for his actions during that mission.
Source: Cecil Chaudhry, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Chaudhry
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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