Researching Charles Seligman
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 22 people with the Seligman surname? In that year Seligman was ranked number 3557 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Seligman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Seligman and the Seligman Genealogy
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 93 people with the Seligman surname in the UK? Seligman is now ranked number 3954 for popularity in the UK. |
Seligman Family History Databases
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Seligman Forums
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Some Famous People called Charles Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS FRAI (24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist. His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan. He was a Professor at London School of Economics and was highly influential as the teacher of such notable anthropologists as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes all of whose work overshadowed his own.
Seligman's work promoted scientific racism and he was a proponent of the Hamitic hypothesis, according to which, some civilizations of Africa were thought to have been founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples. Since the 1960s the Hamitic hypothesis, along with other theories of "race science", has become entirely discredited in science.
Source: Charles Gabriel Seligman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Seligman
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