Researching Ellen Hight
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 162 people with the Hight surname? In that year Hight was ranked number 3417 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Ellen means "Form of ELEANOR. light" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Ellen Hight on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ellen Hight and the Hight Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hight 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 Hight family tree.
Search Parish Records for Ellen Hight at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 54 people with the Hight surname in the UK? Hight is now ranked number 3991 for popularity in the UK. |
Hight Genealogy Databases
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Hight Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Hight surname in the USA? Hight is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Hight Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Ellen Hight. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Ellen Hight
Ellen Hight
Ellen Lendra Hight (born February 13, 1981) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation Zambia in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2008).
Hight made her first Zambian team debut, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat two of the women's 100 m butterfly, she touched out Uzbekistan's Mariya Bugakova to obtain a fifth-place finish and forty-seventh overall with a titme of 1:09.34.
Three years after her Olympic debut, Hight retired from swimming to focus primarily on her coaching career at the Pacific Coast Swimming Club in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
In 2007, Hight came out of retirement to compete at the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, where she had won a bronze medal in the women's 100 m butterfly, with an impressive time of 1:03.38. Her success and outstanding performance at the All-Africa Games marked her return to the Olympics in Beijing 2008There, she swam to seventh and fifty-third overall in heat six of the women's 50 m freestyle, posting her best time at 27.42 seconds.
Hight also received a bachelor of science degree major in sports science at the University of Bath in England, and was highly appointed as the nation's sport ambassador in 2003.
Source: Ellen Hight, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Hight
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