Researching George Crispin
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 649 people with the Crispin surname? In that year Crispin was ranked number 2931 for popularity in the UK. |

The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Crispin on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Crispin and the Crispin Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Crispin 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 Crispin family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 731 people with the Crispin surname in the UK? Crispin is now ranked number 3351 for popularity in the UK. |
Crispin Family Tree Databases
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Crispin Forums
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on George Crispin. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called George Crispin
George Crispin
George Adlai Crispin (February 16, 1885 – April 16, 1962) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University—for two seasons, from 1912 until 1913, compiling a record of 9–9. Crispin came to Kansas State Normal in 1912 originally as an athletic instructor but was later given football coaching duties when previous coach Fred Honhart resigned to go pursue studies in medicine. Crispin had prior experience in football coaching as an assistant coach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He resigned the coaching job in 1914 after a proposed pay cut was but forward by the university's board.
On November 27, 1914, Crispin married Daisy Burlingame, who had also worked at Kansas State Normal, in the bursar's office in Erie, Kansas. He had been working as an athletics supervisor with public schools in Madison, Wisconsin at the time where he also resided. He later moved to Colorado where he lived until his death in Denver in 1962.
Source: George Crispin, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Crispin
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