Records of Chong Lim on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Chong Lim 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

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Lim ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Chong Lim and the Lim Genealogy

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

Investigate Parish Records for Chong Lim at Find My Past.

Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Chong Lim using the FreeBMD database.

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Look at MyHeritage for Chong Lim information.

Look at the LDS Database for records about Chong Lim.

Research the Lim surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Lim Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 1446 people with the Lim surname in the UK? Lim is now ranked number 2729 for popularity in the UK.

Lim Genealogy Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Chong Lim.

Study MyTrees for information on the Lim family and people looking to contact living Lim relations.

Investigate One Great Family for Lim records submitted by people who are already researching the Lim Family Tree.

Find Chong Lim from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Lim 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.

Research the Lim surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 18229 people with the Lim surname in the USA? Lim is ranked number 151 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Lim Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Chong Lim. 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 Chong Lim

Chong Lim

Chong Voon Lim (born Ipoh, Malaysia) is a Malaysian-born Australian-based musical director, keyboardist, producer, and session musician. Lim attended St. Michael's Institution for secondary education. He relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 1977, where he attended Geelong College, and then completed a mechanical engineering course at University of Melbourne from 1978 to 1981. Lim has toured with Jermaine Jackson and John Farnham, after Farnham's long-time collaborator David Hirschfelder left to concentrate on film scores. He has toured and been music director and producer for Olivia Newton-John since 1998 and is patron of the Olivia Newton-John Foundation.

Lim is a consultant for the musical instrument company Roland Corporation, producer of an album for Tommy Emmanuel and wrote music for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, was musical director and composer for the closing ceremony of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was also musical director for the stage version of Dirty Dancing, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and Kylie Minogue's Intimate and Live Tour.

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours Lim was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant service to the performing arts as a musician, composer, producer and musical director, and to the community".

Source: Chong Lim, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Lim

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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