Researching Dinesh Wicks
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4215 people with the Wicks surname? In that year Wicks was ranked number 1007 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Dinesh Wicks on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Dinesh Wicks 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dinesh Wicks and the Wicks Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wicks 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 Wicks family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Dinesh Wicks at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Dinesh Wicks using the FreeBMD database.
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Study the LDS Database for records about Dinesh Wicks.
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| Did you know that there are currently 5039 people with the Wicks surname in the UK? Wicks is now ranked number 1174 for popularity in the UK. |
Wicks Family Tree Databases
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Find Dinesh Wicks from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Wicks Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Wicks surname in the USA? Wicks is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Wicks Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Dinesh Wicks. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Dinesh Wicks
Dinesh Wicks
Dinesh Wicks (born 26 November 1974) is an Australian composer, creative director and music entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of The D.A's Office, a music production and composition house specializing in music for screen.
Dinesh Wickremeratne was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1974, moving to Australia with his parents in 1976 and residing in Sydney until relocating to Los Angeles in 2012.
Wicks is a featured composer on the scores for over 300 TV series, and together with his creative and business partner Adam Gock has won the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Award for 'Most Performed Composer – Australia' seven times (2020, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2011).
Wicks and Gock were recognized for their contribution to the Australian music industry in 2014 with the coveted APRA AMCOS International Achievement Award.
The D.A's Office also won the US ASCAP's Top Series Music Award in 2013 and 2014.
Wicks and Gock expanded the company to include US operations in 2012 and Wicks has since been based in Los Angeles, CA where he resides with his wife, dog rescue co-ordinator Nicky Wicks and their various dogs.
Wicks is also the co-founder of the ScoreMofo music library and music for branded content agency LAMP.
Some of Wicks' best known works are the musical scores for series Masterchef, Shark Tank, Lego Masters, Sea Patrol, Holey Moley, and Hell's Kitchen.
Wicks and Gock also write pop music under the moniker Cali Satellites with various guest vocalists.
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