Researching Doug Rickard
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2043 people with the Rickard surname? In that year Rickard was ranked number 1803 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Doug means "form of DOUGLAS - from a surname meaning black stream" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Doug Rickard on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Doug Rickard and the Rickard Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Rickard 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 Rickard family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 2784 people with the Rickard surname in the UK? Rickard is now ranked number 1919 for popularity in the UK. |
Rickard Family Tree Databases
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Rickard Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Rickard surname in the USA? Rickard is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Rickard Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Doug Rickard. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Doug Rickard
Doug Rickard
Doug Rickard (26 May 1939 – 7 May 2002) was an Australian-born space engineer. He is known for his stories of engineering while at the Woomera Deep Space Station. He died in 2002 from myelofibrosis caused by contact with cobalt-60 while working at the Maralinga nuclear test facility.
Some of his stories have been collected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, whose logo he possibly inspired (although the logo was designed by Bill Kennard), under the title Memoirs of a space engineer. Additional humorous engineering stories include hand-decoding images from Mariner 4 onto a sheet of graph paper since NASA JPL had only built a single display system, running a magnetic tape recorder 25 times over its rated speed to have enough bandwidth to record Ranger 9 video of its impact on the moon, and an impromptu excavation of Pompeii's plumbing systems.
Rickard also worked for some time for the Australian subsidiary of Digital Equipment Corporation. During that time he was seconded to Project Athena, the Campuswide Computing environment developed at MIT, with the specific responsibility of developing "Bones" a version of the Kerberos Authentication System, that did not relying on strong encryption, and as such would not require US Government approval for export.
Source: Doug Rickard, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDoug Rickard (photographer)
Doug Rickard (born 1968) is an American artist and photographer. He uses technologies such as Google Street View and YouTube to find images, which he then photographs on his computer monitor. His photography has been published in books, exhibited in galleries and held in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Rickard is best known for his book A New American Picture (2010). He is founder and publisher of the website on contemporary photography, American Suburb X, and the website These Americans which publishes some of his collection of found photographs.
Source: Doug Rickard (photographer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Rickard
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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