Researching Geoff Collyer
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1853 people with the Collyer surname? In that year Collyer was ranked number 1925 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Geoff means "Form of JEFFREY. God's peace" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
Records of Geoff Collyer on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Geoff Collyer and the Collyer Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 2055 people with the Collyer surname in the UK? Collyer is now ranked number 2310 for popularity in the UK. |
Collyer Family Tree Databases
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Collyer Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Geoff Collyer. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Geoff Collyer
Geoff Collyer
Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders. He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation. In the past he worked as a Unix system programmer, but since 1994 he has been living on Plan 9 while working at Bell Laboratories.
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Other names that sound a bit like Collyer
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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