Records of Eric Schaefer on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eric Schaefer and the Schaefer Family History

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

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Some Famous People called Eric Schaefer

Eric Schaefer

Eric Schaefer, Ph.D., (born 1959) is a professor and film historian. He is an associate professor at Emerson College and interim chair of the visual and media arts department.

He has a B.A. from Webster University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin.

He is best known for his book on exploitation filmmaking, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959, published by Duke University Press in 1999. He has been described as "the go-to academic source on the genre of exploitation films."

He is a member of the Northeast Historic Film board of advisors and a member of the editorial board of the journal The Moving Image.

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Other names that sound a bit like Schaefer

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