Records of Dolliver Nelson on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Dolliver Nelson in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. 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 Dolliver Nelson and the Nelson Genealogy

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

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Nelson 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.

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Nelson 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 Nelson Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Dolliver Nelson. 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 Dolliver Nelson

Dolliver Nelson

L. Dolliver M. Nelson (27 June 1932 – 18 July 2016) was a Grenadian jurist. He was born in Sauteurs, Grenada. He received his BA from the University of the West Indies and further education at the London School of Economics. He served as the Vice President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1999 to 2002 and later its President from 2002 to 2005. He had also been a national justice in his native Grenada and served as a presiding arbiter for the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Source: Dolliver Nelson, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Nelson

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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