Records of Elan Stephens on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Elan Stephens 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 Elan Stephens and the Stephens Family History

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

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Some Famous People called Elan Stephens

Elan Closs Stephens

Dame Elan Closs Stephens (born 16 June 1948) is a Welsh educator and the Wales representative on the BBC Board. She specialises in cultural and broadcasting policy. She also serves as a non-executive director of the Welsh Government's Board, led by the Permanent Secretary. She is Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University.

Born in Talysarn in the Nantlle Valley, Gwynedd, she was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle and Somerville College, Oxford.

Stephens is Emeritus Professor of Communications and Creative Industries at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Theatre Film and Television. She also acts as Director of Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer to enable research projects with industry partners. In 2020 Stephens was appointed Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University.

In 1998, the Department for Culture Media and Sport appointed Stephens chair of the S4C Authority, which was renewed for a second term until 2006. She was a Governor of the British Film Institute until 2007, and Chair of its Audit and Governance during the refurbishment of the Southbank Centre National Film Theatre. She chaired the Wales Advisory Committee of the British Council until 2011, and was a Board member of the Film Agency for Wales, and a Trustee/Board member of Arts & Business.

After chairing Chwarae Teg, a body that promotes the economic development of women in Wales, in 2009 she was appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government's Minister for Social Justice and Local Government to chair the Recovery Board for Isle of Anglesey County Council. In 2006, she chaired the Stephens Report on the financing and structure of the arts in Wales for the Welsh Assembly Government. A member of the Welsh Assembly Government's Strategic Delivery Performance Board, in October 2010 she was appointed a member for Wales of the BBC Trust.

Stephens was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and the Welsh Language and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the Welsh Government and broadcasting.

She was appointed High Sheriff of Dyfed for 2012/13.

Stephens has two grown-up children.

Source: Elan Closs Stephens, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Stephens

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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