Researching Ellen Scripps
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The name Ellen means "Form of ELEANOR. light" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Ellen Scripps on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Ellen Scripps in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ellen Scripps and the Scripps Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Scripps 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 Scripps family tree.
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Scripps Family History Databases
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Scripps Forums
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Miscellaneous Scripps Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Ellen Scripps. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Ellen Scripps
Ellen Browning Scripps
Ellen Browning Scripps (October 18, 1836 – August 3, 1932) was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. She and her half-brother E. W. Scripps created America's largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. By the 1920s, Ellen Browning Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million (or $388 million in 2020 dollars), most of which she gave away.
In 1924, she founded the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California. She also donated millions of dollars to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and women's education.
Source: Ellen Browning Scripps, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Scripps
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