Researching Charles Gaines
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 539 people with the Gaines surname? In that year Gaines was ranked number 3040 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Gaines on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Gaines and the Gaines Genealogy
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 964 people with the Gaines surname in the UK? Gaines is now ranked number 3136 for popularity in the UK. |
Gaines Family Tree Databases
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Gaines Forums
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Some Famous People called Charles Gaines
Charles Gaines
Charles Latham Gaines, Jr. (born January 6, 1942) is an American writer and outdoorsman, notable for numerous works in both the fiction and non-fiction genres. His writing most typically concerns the outdoors sports of fishing in general and fly fishing in particular, as well as upland bird hunting and mountaineering, often with an intellectual and philosophical bent, and an eye towards the various cultures and traditions surrounding different forms of fishing around the world.
In addition to his outdoors writings, Gaines covered the "Golden Age" of professional bodybuilding and is the author of Pumping Iron, considered the definitive journalistic work in that field, and credited in large part for bringing greater public awareness to what was formerly a little-known subculture, as well as helping to launch the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gaines also narrated and contributed to the documentary film of the same name.
Gaines is active in the conservation movement and in particular the stewardship of the North American Atlantic Salmon fisheries. He has served on the board of directors of the Atlantic Salmon Federation.
Source: Charles Gaines, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaCharles Gaines (artist)
Charles Gaines (born 1944) is an American artist whose work interrogates the discourse of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, the work consistently involves the use of systems, predominantly in the form of the grid, often in combination with photography. His work is rooted in Conceptual Art – in dialogue with artists such as Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Mel Bochner – and Gaines is committed to its tenets of engaging cognition and language. As one of the only African-American conceptual artists working in the 1970s, a time when political expressionism was a prevailing concern among African-American artists, Gaines was an outlier in his pursuit of abstraction and non-didactic approach to race and politics. There is a strong musical thread running through much of Gaines' work, evident in his repeated use of musical scores as well in his engagement with the idea of indeterminacy, as similar to John Cage and Sol LeWitt.
Source: Charles Gaines (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Gaines
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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