Records of Douglas Savile on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Douglas Savile and the Savile Genealogy

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

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Some Famous People called Douglas Savile

Douglas Barton Osborne Savile

Douglas Barton Osborne Savile (July 19, 1909 – August 1, 2000) was an Irish-born Canadian mycologist, plant pathologist and evolutionary biologist. He is particularly renowned for his unique work on the coevolution of host plants and their rust fungi.

Doug Savile was born in Dublin, and went to elementary school in tropical Africa and secondary school in England. He graduated from Macdonald College of McGill University in Quebec in 1934 (M.Sc.), and took 1939 his PhD from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Edwin Butterworth Mains. His thesis was on nuclear structure and behaviour in species of the Uredinales. 1939–1943 he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Upon his return, he was employed in the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology at the Central Experimental Farm of the Department of Agriculture. He mainly worked on diseases of ornamental plants. From 1949, he went on numerous expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. He retired from Agriculture Canada in 1974.

Source: Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Savile

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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