Researching Habib Touma
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The name Habib means "beloved" and is of Arabic origin.
Records of Habib Touma on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Habib Touma 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
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Touma ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Habib Touma and the Touma Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Touma 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 Touma family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Habib Touma at Find My Past.
Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Habib Touma using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records about Habib Touma.
Research the Touma surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Touma Military records.
Touma Family Tree Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Habib Touma.
Study MyTrees for information on the Touma family and people looking to contact living Touma relations.
Check out One Great Family for Touma records submitted by people who are already researching the Touma Family Tree.
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Touma 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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Miscellaneous Touma Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Habib Touma. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Habib Touma
Habib Hassan Touma
Habib Hassan Touma (12 December 1934 – 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Nazareth, who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany. Touma authored a number of books, essays and musicological studies on Arabic; Turkish or Iranian music, among them The Music of the Arabs, first published in 1975 in German and translated into several languages.
He was also a book review editor for the ethnomusicological journal The World of Music, published by the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin. Among other studies based on his field work in Arabic countries, he published a description and photographs of the Work Songs of the Gulf Pearl Divers of Bahrain. Another of his studies treated the Arabic musical influence on the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Al-Andalus.
Source: Habib Hassan Touma, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Touma
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