Researching Gary Kinsman
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 604 people with the Kinsman surname? In that year Kinsman was ranked number 2975 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Gary means "spear carrier" and is of English origin.
Records of Gary Kinsman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Gary Kinsman and the Kinsman Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kinsman 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 Kinsman family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 548 people with the Kinsman surname in the UK? Kinsman is now ranked number 3523 for popularity in the UK. |
Kinsman Family History Databases
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Kinsman Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Gary Kinsman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Gary Kinsman
Gary Kinsman
Gary William Kinsman (born 1955) is a Canadian sociologist. Born in Toronto, he is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In 1987, he wrote one of the key Canadian texts on LGBT social history, Regulation of Desire, reprinted in 1995. In 2000, he edited and co-authored a second work, on Canadian federal government surveillance of marginal and dissident political and social groups, Whose National Security? In 2010, Kinsman's newest book, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, co-written with Patrizia Gentile, was published by University of British Columbia Press and released on 1 March.
A retired professor of sociology, formerly at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Kinsman's research and publication focuses primarily on the sociological perspectives of LGBT issues. Kinsman is also a social activist on feminist, trade union, social justice, and anti-poverty issues.
Kinsman was a writer for The Body Politic and a central figure in the publication of the successor magazine Rites. He helped found Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere and the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee of Toronto.
In Sudbury, he was one of the organizers of the city's first-ever Sudbury Pride event in 1997.
In 2015, Kinsman was active in a campaign lobbying for a formal apology from the Government of Canada for the purges of LGBT people from the federal civil service in the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: Gary Kinsman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kinsman
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