Records of Harry Cheney on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Harry Cheney 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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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Harry Cheney and the Cheney Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cheney 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 Cheney family tree.

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Cheney Genealogy 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.

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Cheney 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 Cheney Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Harry Cheney. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Harry Cheney

Harry Morrison Cheney

Harry Morrison Cheney (1860–1937) was a politician from New Hampshire and businessman.

Cheney was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1860 to Elias and Susan (Youngman) Cheney and was a grandson of abolitionist Moses Cheney. Cheney's family moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he attended the schools in Lebanon and then Colby Academy before graduating from Bates College in Maine in 1886 where his uncle Oren Cheney was the college's president and founder. After graduation from Bates Cheney worked as a printer, with his father. When his father accepted an appointment as Consul in Matanzas, Cuba, Harry Cheney took over the printing operation. His family was active in New Hampshire politics with his grandfather and father serving as state legislators and his uncle Person Cheney serving as a U.S. Senator, Governor, and Ambassador. Cheney served several terms as a State Representative and State Senator starting in 1893, including a term as Speaker of the House in 1904. He served as Acting Governor of New Hampshire in 1904 when Governor Batchelder was out of state and certified the electors for President Theodore Roosevelt. Cheney married Mary Vose and had two daughters. He was an active Freemason and member of the Unitarian church.

Source: Harry Morrison Cheney, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cheney

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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