Researching Douglas Lain
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 191 people with the Lain surname? In that year Lain was ranked number 3388 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Douglas means "from a surname meaning black stream" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Douglas Lain on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Douglas Lain and the Lain Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lain 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 Lain family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Douglas Lain at Find My Past.
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Research the Lain surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Lain Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 232 people with the Lain surname in the UK? Lain is now ranked number 3824 for popularity in the UK. |
Lain Family History Databases
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Lain Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Lain surname in the USA? Lain is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Lain Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Douglas Lain. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Douglas Lain
Douglas Lain
Douglas Lain ( born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a writer whose books include the post-singularity novel Bash Bash Revolution from Night Shade Books, the magical realist novel Billy Moon from Tor Books, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominated novel After the Saucers Landed.
His short stories have appeared in genre magazines such as Interzone and Amazing Stories as well as in online publications such as Pif Magazine and Strange Horizons. He has written nonfiction as well as fiction and is a blogger for Thought Catalog and The Partially Examined Life. Lain's fiction has been generally well received by critics in journals and periodicals such as Locus Magazine (Rich Horton// Locus Magazine; January 2012, Issue 612, Vol. 68 No. 1), Publishers Weekly (Olson, Ray // Publishers Weekly; 19 December 2005, Vol. 252 Issue 50, p 46), and Rain Taxi magazine (Dole, Kevin//Rain Taxi; Vol. 11 No. 2, Summer 2006, #42).
Lain was the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap", and currently hosts a political podcast "Zero Squared". He was the publishing manager in charge of Zero Books from 2015- October 2021.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Source: Douglas Lain, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Lain
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