Researching Francisco Rodrigues
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 46 people with the Rodrigues surname? In that year Rodrigues was ranked number 3533 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Francisco Rodrigues on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Francisco Rodrigues 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 Francisco Rodrigues and the Rodrigues Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Rodrigues 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 Rodrigues family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Francisco Rodrigues at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Francisco Rodrigues using the FreeBMD database.
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Research the Rodrigues surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Rodrigues Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 1949 people with the Rodrigues surname in the UK? Rodrigues is now ranked number 2382 for popularity in the UK. |
Rodrigues Family History Databases
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Rodrigues Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
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| Did you know that there are currently 27344 people with the Rodrigues surname in the USA? Rodrigues is ranked number 148 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Rodrigues Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Francisco Rodrigues. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Francisco Rodrigues
Francisco Martins Rodrigues
right|thumb|200px|Francisco Martins Rodrigues in 2006.Francisco Martins Rodrigues (1927, Moura - April 22, 2008) was a Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant and the founder of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee in 1964, which was one of the country's first major Marxist-Leninist organizations. Rodrigues was imprisoned numerous times by the PIDE, including a long prison term between 1965 and the Carnation Revolution in April 1974. On January 3, 1960, he, Álvaro Cunhal, and eight others escaped from Peniche Fortress to the great embarrassment of the government.
Francisco Martins Rodrigues died of cancer in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 22, 2008, at the age of 81. His funeral and cremation was held at the Cemitério do Alto São João.
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