Researching Ferdinand Stone
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The name Ferdinand means "To be Courageous" and is of German origin.
Records of Ferdinand Stone on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ferdinand Stone and the Stone Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Stone 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 Stone family tree.
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Stone Family History Databases
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Stone Forums
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Ferdinand Stone
Professor Ferdinand Fairfax Stone (December 12, 1908 – June 10, 1989) was a longtime law professor at the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and an expert in comparative law. A native of Urbana, Ohio, he graduated from Ohio State University, where he obtained both a bachelor's and master's degree before attending Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. He obtained two bachelor's and one master's degrees from Oxford, as well as a doctorate from Yale University.
Stone was the author of many books and articles in comparative law in French and English. One of his textbooks on American law was the first published in French.
Stone was an expert on, and a prolific writer of, the law of Torts.
In addition to his teaching duties, while an active member of Tulane's faculty from 1937 to 1978, as a visiting professor in other institutions and as the W. R. Irby Professor Emeritus after retiring, in 1949 he founded and headed until 1979 Tulane's Institute of Comparative Law, served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a director of the Society for Comparative Study of Law.
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