Records of Don Argus on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Don Argus 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

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Don Argus and the Argus Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Argus 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Argus family tree.

Check out Parish Records for Don Argus at Find My Past.

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

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Check out MyHeritage for Don Argus information.

Look at the LDS Database for records about Don Argus.

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

Argus Family Tree 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 Don Argus.

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

Look at One Great Family for Argus records submitted by people who are already researching the Argus Family Tree.

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Argus 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 Argus Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Don Argus. 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 Don Argus

Don Argus

Donald Robert Argus AC (born 1 August 1938) is an Australian businessman, chairman of Bank of America Australia advisory board and member of Monash University's Monash Business School advisory board. He is a former member of Bank of America's inaugural Global Advisory Council (2013–2019); former chairman of BHP (1999–2010) and Brambles (1999–2008), former director of the Australian Foundation Investment Company (1999–2013) and former CEO of National Australia Bank (1991–1999). He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School.

Argus spent much of his early career in the banking industry. He was credited with leading National Australia Bank (NAB) to recovery from a difficult period in the late 1980s and was the Executive Director Banking at NAB prior to succeeding Neil Clark as chief executive officer on 1 October 1990, having been at the bank since the 1956. During his leadership market capitalisation grew from A$5.5 billion to a peak of A$37 billion. EPS growth in that period grew at a rate of 128%.

Argus joined the board of BHP in 1996, assuming the role of chairman in 1999, at which time the market capitalisation was A$17.28 billion. During his stewardship he oversaw the formation of a dual listed companies (DLC) structure between BHP and Anglo–Dutch miner Billiton and at the time of his retirement in 2010, BHP Billiton had a combined market capitalisation of A$226.5 billion.

Former positions held include member of the international advisory board of Allianz, member of the international advisory committee to the New York Stock Exchange board of directors and was also a part of the board of the winemaker Southcorp but resigned following its acquisition of Rosemount.

Argus was also co-chair of the Policy Transition Group on Mining Resources Rent Tax for the Australian Government (2010) and chaired what was to become known as the “Argus Review” into the Australian Cricket Team’s performance commissioned by Cricket Australia (2011). In 2007 he was named one of the most influential figures in Australian business by The Bulletin magazine.

Argus is a senior fellow (SF) of Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountants Australia (CPA) and an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP). He has been awarded honorary degrees from Monash University (Doctor of Laws), Griffith University (Doctor of the University) and the University of Queensland (Doctor of Business), and in 2009 was an inaugural inductee of the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

He has many sporting interests and holds an International Coaching Certificate of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and is a life member of the Redcliffe Hockey Club. He is also a member of the Camberwell Hockey Club, Kingston Heath Golf Club, Sorrento Golf Club and the Queensland Cricketer’s Club.

Source: Don Argus, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Argus

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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