Records of Edwin Tong on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Edwin Tong 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 Edwin Tong and the Tong Genealogy

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

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

ukDid you know that there are currently 1823 people with the Tong surname in the UK? Tong is now ranked number 2455 for popularity in the UK.

Tong 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.

Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Edwin Tong.

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Tong 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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ukDid you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Tong surname in the USA? Tong is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA.

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Some Famous People called Edwin Tong

Edwin Tong

Edwin Tong Chun Fai ( born 1969) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is a of the Member of Parliament (MP) and has been representing the Joo Chiat ward of Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2011. Within the PAP, he is a member of the party's Central Executive Committee.

Before entering politics, Tong was a lawyer at Allen & Gledhill practising extensively in corporate and commercial disputes, restructuring and insolvency matters, and international arbitration. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2015.

Tong made his political debut in the 2011 general election when he contested as part of a four-member PAP team in Moulmein–Kallang GRC and won the election. In the subsequent general elections, he contested as part of the PAP team in Marine Parade GRC and was elected to Parliament again.

Throughout his political career, he held positions in the Ministries of Law and Health before he was promoted to full Minister after the 2020 general election.

Source: Edwin Tong, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Tong

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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